Unicode normalization forms

Every time I see the Unicode support in PHP 6 getting better, I like it more. But I have a question related to a problem I recently had to solve with an external script in my code: Will there be any way to access different normalization forms from inside PHP? After a great deal of research and attempting various methods, I ended up using a hacked version of an ancient Perl script from W3C to get normalized Unicode, and I'm hoping there'll be something better in the offing. I don't have the Unicode skill to write a normalization routine as either PHP or a PHP extension, not to mention I don't want to haul around that giant datafile of decompositions :). -- Gwynne, Daughter of the Code "This whole world is an asylum for the incurable."