[shellac]

Thanks very much for clarifying that. It did seem unlikely: I remember NSString (ask you parents...) supported this level of unicode equivalence, and it was quite a burden. Normalising does feel like the only tractable method here, and if you have an extraction pipeline anyway (in rga) maybe it's not so bad.

[burntsushi]

Yes, rga could support this in a more streamlined manner than rg, since rga has that extraction pipeline with caching. ripgrep just has a hook for an extraction pipeline.