# http://w...content-available-to-author-only...e.org/reports/tr15/
import unicodedata
N = lambda c: unicodedata.normalize('NFC', c)
ohm, omega = u'\u2126\u03a9'
ohm_b, omega_b = [c.encode('utf-8') for c in [ohm, omega]]
print "characters", ohm_b, omega_b
print "utf-8", ohm_b == omega_b
print "unicode", ohm == omega
print "NFC", N(ohm) == omega
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