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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 31/08/2017 16:09, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

>> As I see it, there is nothing wrong with reading a sequence of octets
>> containing an UTF-8 encoded string, mapping it to the internal
>> encoding, and *then* parse the text.
>
> UTF-8 *is* the internal encoding. It is the best representation for
> most cases.

But see the thread beginning at [1], and specifically [2], for the
effect of different normalization forms ..

[1]
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.ada/ZhDARPQ8deQ/fubEjsggBAAJ

[2]
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.ada/ZhDARPQ8deQ/6v-c9SmNAQAJ