From 25fe3ba5149cda36e173ee7427324fa74e6784be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: toasted-nutbread <toasted-nutbread@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 13:29:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Revert term/reading string normalization due to undesirable
 changes (#1959)

---
 ext/js/language/dictionary-importer.js | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ext/js/language/dictionary-importer.js b/ext/js/language/dictionary-importer.js
index ad5d7a70..7a070b8d 100644
--- a/ext/js/language/dictionary-importer.js
+++ b/ext/js/language/dictionary-importer.js
@@ -587,10 +587,12 @@ class DictionaryImporter {
     }
 
     _normalizeTermOrReading(text) {
-        try {
-            return text.normalize('NFC');
-        } catch (e) {
-            return text;
-        }
+        // Note: this function should not perform String.normalize on the text,
+        // as it will characters in an undesirable way.
+        // Thus, this function is currently a no-op.
+        // Example:
+        // - '\u9038'.normalize('NFC') => '\u9038' (逸)
+        // - '\ufa67'.normalize('NFC') => '\u9038' (逸 => 逸)
+        return text;
     }
 }