[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 113001] Some Hebrew diacritics get messed up on form submission

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113001


Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID
                 CC|                            |ap at webkit.org




--- Comment #1 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2013-03-26 11:58:08 PST ---
> this "fixed" order is invalid (or at least non-standard) 

In fact, '\u05d1\u05bc\u05b5' is not properly normalized - both NFC and NFD forms for this string are '\u05d1\u05b5\u05bc'. Please see <http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/> for discussion of Unicode normalization forms.

Overall, this is expected behavior.

The reason why we normalize to NFC when sending for text is compatibility - since Windows uses NFC everywhere, there can be subtle errors when the text sent from WebKit gets processed by systems that don't work with decomposed text well.

I can see how in this specific case WebKit becomes an outlier, but this is the cost of being like other browsers in more common cases.

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