Daniel Veillard scripsit:

>    Just to put some emphasis to what John Cowan already said, I'm afraid
>  of the cost of normalizing on-the-fly, the algorithms I could found
>  in the Unicode annexes were just scary (in term of complexity and memory
>  requirement) maybe there is simpler lean and cheap normalization 
>  algorithms (I would like pointers ;-) but definitely that cost is better
>  done once at generation time. Apparently normalization checking is
>  slightly lighter and as said that check is optional c.f. 2.13 wording.

ICU is, as always, the gold standard for this kind of thing.  It has
both normalizing and normalization-checking algorithms.

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