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And spellcheck and accent counting or checking can still be done on NFC normalized forms. The accents are not lost when combined. The resulting text is visibly identical decomposed or composed. In fact hunspell spelling dictionaries need to choose a single form and rely on normalization when used with languages that make heavy use of accents.
You seem to think NFC form is somehow worse than decomposed NFD form. That is just not the case. The end result is identical. It is mixing forms that cause issues for spellchecking, search and replace, etc. Choosing composed (NFC) over decomposed (NFD) should result in shorter strings, less memory, faster search and replace, etc. Plus it is what most keyboard input produces. Even git repos can be set to use precomposed forms using automatic conversion.
As I said now repeatedly, an environment var will be added to disable this in case the user disagrees, as long as all file paths, links, and urls use NFC form which is what the current epub3 spec requires minimally to ensure basic functionality.
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