Re: UTF-8 NFC vs NFD compression, French sample (was: Updated Binary Optimized Header Encoding Draft)

On Wednesday, November 21, 2012, Frédéric Kayser wrote:

> Effectively, I have noticed some odd behaviour, for instance search of
> words containing diacritics does not work if the text is in NFD since when
> typed the search string is usually in NFC (tested in many text editors and
> web browsers).


Exactly.  Now, we are talking about intra-protocol elements, but even so,
I'd rather focus on alternative ways to compress than this one.