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I'm assuming Unicode anyway, and UTF-8 is by far the most natural because most files will be in ASCII. A "normal form" (see link above), you might think of it as a canonical form, is a way to check if two strings are equivalent, even if they encoded the text differently. Like the example mentioned on Wikipedia: