Subject: Re: bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:40:36 +0300

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:16:34 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> What confuses me is that, AIUI, the "deprecated" codepoints should
> decompose to their Greek and Coptic counterparts[3].  How does Quail
> interplay with Unicode normalisation?

It doesn't.  Unicode normalization is implemented in core Emacs, and
it follows the Unicode rules on the one hand and the "decomposition"
property we read from UnicodeData.txt OTOH.