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Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:03:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>> The "i18n" character classification (listed in Section 4.3.2) is
>> actually very broad: it considers at least all Latin, Greek and Cyrillic
>> letters as part of the `alpha' character class.
>
> I think that makes sense. Just because some letters in a charset are
> not normally used in a particular language is no real reason not to
> have them considered letters.
For the record, I started a discussion on `libc-locales' on this topic
[0]. The issue at hand is whether character classification in locales
should be (or "has to be", per some standard) language-independent.
Thanks,
Ludovic.
[0] http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-locales/2006-q3/msg00086.html
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, (continued)
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/14
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/14
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Neil Jerram, 2006/09/15
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/16
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/18
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/19
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/19
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/20
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Neil Jerram, 2006/09/22
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/09/25
- Re: SRFI-14 and locale settings,
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