Unicode normaliser

NFC, NFD, NFKC or NFKD — pick the form and see the difference.

Result
The result appears here as you type.

Why you would use this

The same visible text can be stored two ways: é as one codepoint, or as e plus a combining accent. Normalisation picks one. NFC composes, NFD decomposes, and the K forms additionally fold compatibility characters — fi becomes fi, ① becomes 1 — which is destructive but exactly what a search index wants.

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