Talk:Canonical decomposition

Can anyone define this or canonical equivalence without using the other term in the explanation? -Heartofgoldfish 21:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * In reality the decompositions are just defined as properties of the individual characters, as described in a big table in a text file on Unicode.org --66.251.26.56 21:44, 1 November 2006 (UTC)