On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:01:16AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Can that confusion happen at the start of a word or only inside > words?? And how many rulebreaking words are there, can they be > enumerated??
It can happen only in the middle. Only in a case when the word is constructed from two initially (semi-)separate words. In my example the word "viachlasný" is "viac" + "hlasný" (it is something like multi+voice). It will happen always when you combine a word ending by "c" with another word starting with "h". Such combinations are not very often used in the language, but because they are constructed as a combination of two words, you can construct a lot of such words. The situation is even worse because those two (semi-)separate words used for the construction might not exist as separate words in such form as it was used for the construction. BTW, the problem is caused by a fact that our "ch" (the single letter) is equivalent to Russian "X", with the exception that we do not have a single character for it (we probably should have). AFAIK, Czech language is similar with "ch" (it is a single letter too), but I am not sure whether there is an example of a real word where "ch" are two letters. > > On 2013-03-12 22:50, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > >On 03/12/2013 10:10 PM, Marcel Telka wrote: > >>On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:02:27PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > >>>I'm pretty sure nobody in bash development actually considers > >>>locale-specific letter ordering rules. Language-specific idiosyncrasies > >>>are a never ending stream of hurt and implementation problems (e.g. in > >>>my language "ch" is supposed to be treated as a single letter for > >>>sorting purposes). > >>Interestingly, "ch" is not always a single letter. It depends on a word: > >>"viachlasný" is an example of a word where "ch" are two letters... > >> > >>Yes, our language is Slovak. > >Correct, that's another twisty-twist I forgot to mention. Slovak > >sucks... (for computing) > > > >-- > >Saso -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | | jabber: mar...@jabber.sk | +-------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
