On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Adrian Lang<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brenda, > > On Tue, July 28, 2009 12:22 pm, Brenda Wallace wrote: >> I don't understand what ascii representations are needed here. >> Can you give an example of how some utf8 string tags would be >> represented in ascii? > > in a discussion on IRC the city of Aarhus was mentioned as an example. While > it is sad for some > people to not be able to use „Århus“ as a hashtag, „Aarhus“ allows foreign > people – like, visitors > for example – to find the tag. The german party „Die Grünen“ is often > hashtagged as „#GRUENE“, but > supporting umlauts we would see „#GRÜNE“ as well. Same applies for nearly > every austrian party > („FPÖ“, „SPÖ“) … Hashtags in different writing systems are a whole new group > of problems. > > Generally speaking, unicode hashtags will greatly increase the amount of > different versions of the > same tag. As a writer of german notices I really understand the desire for > umlaut (and hence other > unicode char) support in hashtags, but with being really old-fashioned and > not supporting unicode > in hashtags, we assure that they are able to do what they should do: > collecting notices. > > I think the links in [1] could give an idea of a possible solution. PHP > supports the > Internationalization extension [2] (A wrapper for International Components > for Unicode), whose > class Normalizer looks quite good. Maybe we could add this as an optional > dependency?
got it. Café == cafe Māori == maori Über == uber == ueber (Is it only German speakers who use umlauts?) I've been discussing the Thai and Mandarin usage of hashtags with my sister (linguistics phd student). Neither language use the space char like a european derived writing system does. I know some written Chinese but no Thai, so she's finding a native speaker for me to buy coffee and discuss. Anyone know Thai speaking users of microblogging (open or otherwise) that I can discuss with? Any other languages to consider? _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
