On 22-09-14 16:55, Andi Kleen wrote:
Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx> writes:
Strings are normalized using a trie that stores the relevant
information. The trie itself is about 250kB in size, and lives in a
separate module.
So 250kB bloat -- and what does this fix exactly?
Someone putting random ligatures into their file names and expecting
the file to be the same as before. Can't they just not do that?
I like the 'office' example because it is applicable to English and easy to
explain. Once you move away from English examples are much easier to come
by. Take a Dutch name like 'Renée Soutendijk'.
These two forms both spell Renée in UTF-8:
0x52 0x65 0x6E 0xC3 0xA9 0x65
0x52 0x65 0x6E 0x65 0xCC 0x81 0x65
The difference is
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE (U+00E9)
LATIN SMALL LETTER E (U+0065) COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT (U+0301)
and corresponds to the difference between NFC and NFD.
These two forms both spell Soutendijk in UTF-8:
0x53 0x6F 0x75 0x74 0x65 0x6E 0x64 0x69 0x6A 0x6B
0x53 0x6F 0x75 0x74 0x65 0x6E 0x64 0xC4 0xB3 0x6B
The difference is
LATIN SMALL LETTER I (U+0069) LATIN SMALL LETTER J (U+006A)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ (U+0133)
and the former is the compatibility decomposition of the latter, the 'K' in
NFKC/NFKD.
Do accented letters count as random ligatures that people should just not use?
The bulk of the table deals with Korean.
Olaf
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