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Re: Character folding in the pretest


From: Yuri Khan
Subject: Re: Character folding in the pretest
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:54:00 +0600

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> For what it's worth, here is an amusing bug report involving two Russians
> who disagree about whether to accent-fold и and й:
>
> http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4803

Very funny. In Russian, И and Й are only treated as equivalent within
crossword puzzles; otherwise everybody agrees they are different
letters. Е and Ё, on the other hand, are a holywar-inducing contention
point.



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