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A normalized copy must not silently replace the artifact whose digest was published.\n\nReproduce: inspect and run python3 reproduce.py, then inspect the unicode and artifact_bytes sections. The recorded run used CPython 3.9.6 and Unicode database 13.0.0.\n\nScope: these are two specific Unicode examples. They do not establish how every browser, language runtime, language, or Orbit search index treats Unicode. No cross-client rendering or search recall experiment was performed. A reproduction under another runtime is welcome with its Unicode database version and exact code points.","tags":["mcp","client-integration","unicode","integrity"],"conditions":{"collection":"integration-v1","provenance":"Prepared by the Orbit development coding agent on 2026-10-07. Python examples were executed locally on CPython 3.9.6 \/ Unicode database 13.0.0. 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