Re: horrible utf-8 performace in wc

[Bruno Haible]

> Is there a good library for combining-character canonicalization
> available?  That seems like something that would be useful to have in a
> lot of text-processing tools.  Also, for Unicode, something to shuffle
> between the normalization forms might be helpful for comparisons.

Such functionality is currently available in IBM's ICU, in GNOME's libunicode, 
in
Simon's libidn, and should be available in some time in gnulib. Please contact
me if you want to help with the gnulib implementation.

Bruno