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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 08:23:02 +1100
Subject: Re: Python Unicode handling wins again -- mostly
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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> wrot=
e:
> This is where my knowledge about Unicode gets fuzzy.  Isn't it the case t=
hat
> some grapheme clusters (or whatever the right word is) can't be normalize=
d
> down to a single code point?  Characters can accept many accents, for
> example.

You can't normalize everything down to a single code point, but you
can normalize the other way by breaking out everything that can be
broken out.

>>> print(ascii(unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", "=C3=A4")))
'\xe4'
>>> print(ascii(unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", "=C3=A4")))
'a\u0308'

ChrisA