Dear Unicoders,
At the recent RubyKaigi (https://rubykaigi.org/2025/), I helped upgrade
Ruby from Unicode 15.1.0 to 16.0.0. The main issue there was new cases
that were not yet handled by our implementation of Normalization.
I just want to check my understanding of these new cases. Although the
following (eleven horizontal bars on top of a character) is completely
hypothetical, it is my understanding that e.g. the sequence of
U+1611E U+16121 U+16121 U+16121 U+16121 U+16121 should be normalized to
U+16121 U+16121 U+16121 U+16121 U+16121 U+1611E. This would be expressed
in Ruby with a test such as the following:
def test_gurung_khema
assert_equal "\u{16121 16121 16121 16121 16121 1611E}",
"\u{1611E 16121 16121 16121 16121 16121}".unicode_normalize(:nfc)
end
It would be good if a few examples like this would be added to the
NormalizationTest.txt file in the future. I can help with this if needed.
Regards, Martin.
