At 2002-08-22 08:49, Sven Moritz Hallberg wrote:

Ashley, do your property tools include something that can handle composition?

I have decomposition functions: decomposeCanonical :: String -> String; decomposeCompatibility :: String -> String; See <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/hbase/Source/HBa se/Text/Unicode.hs?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain>. Both fully decompose text according to the two kinds of decomposition: "canonical" and "compatibility". These don't do "canonical ordering" of things like multiple accent modifiers, so they don't count as normalisation forms D and KD. I might be able to write the code to do this, however. I don't have composition functions. And it won't help you for layout, since not all characters are composable as single codepoints. See UAX #15 for normalisation. http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/ -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA