On 25/09/2003 12:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:It's not a reordering per se, as the first combining character is given the first "opportunity" to combine.Thanks for the clarification.
In other words, yes, Unicode's NFC does perform "discontiguous composition". Some things might be easier if only contiguous composition were used, but the current definition does give you the shortest strings.
See also http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn5/#FCC (not a normative Unicode document).
markus
