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Treatment of Unicode canoncal decomposition among operating systems

Other Computer Science 2017-11-30 v1

Abstract

This article shows how the text characters that have multiple representations under the Unicode standard are treated by popular operating systems. Whilst most characters have a unique representation in Unicode, some characters such as the accented European letters, can have multiple representations due to a feature of Unicode called normalization. These characters are treated differently by popular operating systems, leading to additional challenges during interoperability of computer programs.

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@article{arxiv.1711.10481,
  title  = {Treatment of Unicode canoncal decomposition among operating systems},
  author = {Efstratios Rappos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10481},
  year   = {2017}
}

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