Re: why do we need utf8 normalization when compare name?

[Aleksa Sarai]

On 2020-03-02, lampahome <pahome.chen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> According to case insensitive since kernel 5.2, d_compare will
> transform string into normalized form and then compare.
>
> But why do we need this normalization function? Could we just compare
> by utf8 string?

The problem is that there are multiple ways to represent the same glyph
in Unicode -- for instance, you can represent Å (the symbol for
angstrom) as both U+212B and U+0041 U+030A (the latin letter "A"
followed by the ring-above symbol "°"). Different software may choose to
represent the same glyphs in different Unicode forms, hence the need for
normalisation.

[1] is the Wikipedia article that describes this problem and what the
different kinds of Unicode normalisation are.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>

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