: I get that it would fold an accented character into the non-accented : character, that's a prime reason why I use it ... but it's taking the accent : as a standalone character (like ` and ¨) and just getting rid of it entirely. : That seems a little odd.
Isn't that part of the point though? to normalize diacritics that might come as independent characters due to keyboard/charset limitations of the end user? So "tréma", "tre'ma" and "trema" all get normalized the same way? -Hoss