Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shawn C Steele

Julie D Bennett

Yung-Shin Lin

John I McConnell

A system and method for converting a source data sequence to a target encoding is disclosed. A fallback technique, specifiable by a user program component, is applied to data in the source data sequence that cannot be mapped to the target encoding. A particular embodiment involves methods for encoding a Unicode string as a sequence of bytes in a target encoding, and decoded the encoded bytes back to Unicode.

Encoding conversion fallback

A system and process for achieving faster Unicode normalizations is described. Various approaches are highlighted that when used alone or in combination eliminate a number of time consuming routines of conventional normalization approaches. Some of the approaches include late normalization, avoiding second table lookups, compressed classes and use of flags, assigning classes to base characters, complicated characters, and flags.

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Shawn C Steele