Subject: bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:27:34 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:00:14 -0800
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> We are using compatibility normalization, not canonical normalization.  So a
> search (or a string comparison test) for `f' will match the ligature `ffi'
> (whereas it would not match wrt canonical normalization).
> 
> Someone please correct me if any of this is wrong.

I'm not sure who is wrong ;-), but I think when compatibility
decomposition exists, it should be used; if not, the canonical
decomposition should be used.