Hello Sven

On 12/9/15, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:

> The simplest example in a common language is (the French letter é) is
>
> LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE [U+00E9]
>
> which can also be written as
>
> LATIN SMALL LETTER E [U+0065] followed by COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT [U+0301]
>
> The former being a composed normal form, the latter a decomposed normal
> form. (And yes, it is even much more complicated than that, it goes on for
> 1000s of pages).
>
> In the above example, the concept of character/string is indeed fuzzy.
>
> HTH,
>
> Sven

Thanks for this example. I have created a wiki page with it

I wonder what the Pharo equivalent is of the following Squeak expression

    $é asString asDecomposedUnicode

Regards

Hannes

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