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Official FAQ: encoded combining characters, diacritic use across languages and the distinction from user-perceived characters.

Official project primary documentation. Introduction to ICU: C/C++ and Java libraries and internationalization services. Linked sections Normalization, Formatting Numbers, Formatting Messages, Locales and Resources document text equivalence and locale-sensitive services. No current release number or unnamed personal authors inferred.

Locale chapter: Overview, The Locale Concept, Default Locales, and Locales and Services; locale identifiers, service-dependent behavior and fallback.

Primary source: www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/core-spec/chapter-3/

Locator: Chapter3, D9–D12,D76,D77 and encoding forms.

Unicode Standard Annex9, Unicode17.0.0,13 August2025. Locators: §1; BD2–BD3; §2.4–2.7; §3.4 ruleL2; §3.5; Acknowledgments.

Unicode Standard Annex15, sections1.1–1.3: canonical equivalence and canonical composition/decomposition.

Unicode Standard Annex29, section3 Grapheme Cluster Boundaries and section3.1.1 default extended-grapheme-cluster rules.