Using a certain newly "Unicode-aware" database application which shall remain nameless (FileMaker 7):

imported UTF-8 sequences like [U+0065][U+0303] <e, tilde> get remapped internally to [U+1ebd] LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH TILDE.

Is this kind of behavior what one would expect?

It's problematic (and buglike) for at least one reason: one needs to put all these precomposed things in one's font, or FileMaker doesn't display them properly.

I'm assuming it will export the data in decomposed form ... but haven't actually tried that yet ...

BTW, this application supports import of UTF-8, but will not export UTF-8. That's odd, isn't it? It'll only export UTF-16 (it's internal storage form).

-Richard




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