Re: normalize.el

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <87ljqjscfp.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm>, storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> > The attached is an Unicode normalization tool contributed by
> > Kawabata-san.  It performs all the Unicode normalization
> > NFC/NFD/NFKD/NFKC, and provides a coding system utf-8-hfs
> > that is suitable to be used for Mac OS 8.1's file names.
> >
> >
> > ;;; normalize.el --- Unicode normalization NFC/NFD/NFKD/NFKC
> >

> Handa-san,

> I have no opinion on the functionality of this package - or
> whether it should go in now or later - but I think the name
> of the package is way too generic - "normalize" reallly says
> nothing at all - and can mean 1000 things to different people
> and in different contexts.

Ah, good point.

> So maybe something like

> utf-8-hfs.el
> hfs-normalize.el
> utf-normalize.el

As the Unicode normalization is for character sequence, not for
UTF (transformaiton format), I think something like these
are better:

ucs-normalize.el
uni-normalize.el  (but it's confusing with the other uni-*.el files)

Kawabata-san, what do you think?

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org