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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:56:07 +0200 |
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:41:46 -0500
>
> > > * Equivalent letters (ö and ø in Swedish).
>
> > Not just letters -- sequences of characters. For example, å vs aa in
> > Danish, or ffi vs ffi.
>
> å and aa in Danish are equivalent, like ö and ø in Swedish.
>
> Ligatures such as ffi are a different issue entirely.
> The relationship between ffi vs ffi is language-independent
> and similar to these two levels:
>
> * Different appearances of the same letter+decorations:
> as a single code point, or as a composition.
>
> * Identical-looking distinct code points (Latin a and Cyrillic a).
I didn't say the 2 examples were in the same class. My point was that
we are not talking about equivalence of _characters_, we are talking
about equivalent character _sequences_.
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/25
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/25
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/25
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Brinkhoff, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/24