25 May
2011
25 May
'11
3:15 a.m.
(Arthur would probably argue about normalization at this point, but I'm also talking about combinations that don't exist in Unicode; maybe <eogonek><combining caron> etc.)
No, what you're proposing is independent of any processing of the character stream, since it happens later, in the font. This is distinct from normalisation. (I think normalisation should be done anyway when you're processing some text in any system, using the form that best fits the expectation, but that is a separate issue.) Arthur