What should be done about concatenation, in view of the fact that concatenation can often break normalization?
While it is true that none of the normalization forms are closed under string concatenation, an optimized concatenation function can be written to produce a normalized concatenation from normalized strings. This is possible, because at most a few characters in the immediate area of the adjoined strings need processing. See the Introduction of UAX #15.
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