Recent changes to decomposed character treatment?

Question

We have noticed some changes in the way composed/decomposed characters are handled in Paratext 8. Has there been a recent change in this functionality? For example, if there is a word which has a composed é (U+00E9) and another version of the word where it is decomposed (’e’ + U+0301), the word list seems to show both of those words together as equivalent. However, I noticed that the character inventory still shows them as separate. It would be good to know exactly how far this improvement goes, if someone can explain that for us.

Answer 1

jeffh:

Has there been a recent change in this functionality?

No, that change was done in Paratext 7.6. I’m not sure why something might have changed for you.

Answer 2

It appears that when you search, it does still make the difference between composed/decomposed. But in the Word List or to identify when a key term equivalent is found, it combines them.