Re: [Afpfs-ng-devel] precompose and decompose

[HAT <ha...@fa...>]

hi.

>> 1) precompose two characters only: supported
>> 2) precompose two characters over: unsupported
>
>I've checked with decompositions of up to four characters and AFAIR it
>works ok. It's not done in a single call to UCS2precompose() but
>repeatedly, so that with each call the "next" accent will be combined
>with the base character (which in the later steps will already be an
>accented one)

Sorry.
Maybe, I was misunderstanding it.
I tested only the afpcmd. I don't use FUSE.
When dumping code, I made a mistake.
Greek Extended Characters has been correctly precomposed.

>> 3) decompose: sample only
>
>There is no decomposition, since the MAC filesystem does the appropriate
>conversions before writing. I was not aware of any problems related to
>the missing functionality so far ...

Yes.
It is a problem which standard or implementation is important.

How is a table[] in lib/unicode.c generated?
This is not at least based on Unicode 3.2.
We should discuss which version to adopt.
I think that we should use the newest version 5.0.0.

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HAT