id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
518	Unicode normalizatin	moyogo@…	framm	"JOSM should normalize strings at input. They should also be normalized when searching.

For example inputing name=""Rue de l'École"" should end up the same as name=""Rue de l'École"". The first has ""É"" as U+0045 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E + U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT while the second has ""É"" U+00C9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE.
Searching for one should match the other.

See http://unicode.org/faq/normalization.html for more info.

java.text.Normalizer.normalize(string, java.text.Normalizer.Form.NFC) can be used when required.
NFC is probably better because it's better supported than NFD due to legacy."	defect	new	trivial		Core	latest