On Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:26:41 Tom Lane wrote:
> Another question is "what is the purpose of a database"? To me it would
> be quite the wrong thing for the DB to not store what is presented, as
> long as it's considered legal. Normalization of legal variant forms
> seems pretty questionable. So I'm with the camp that says this is the
> application's responsibility.
I think automatically normalizing or otherwise fiddling with Unicode strings
with combining characters is not acceptable. But the point is that we should
process equivalent forms in a consistent way.