On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 02:31 PM 3/23/2001 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> >On Friday 23 March 2001 14:18, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > At 01:30 PM 3/22/2001 -0800, Hong Zhang wrote:
> > > >We need the character equivalence construct, such as [[=a=]], which
> > > >matches "a", "A ACUTE".
> > >
> > > Yeah, we really need a big list of these. PDD anyone?
> >
> >But surely this is a locale issue, and not an encoding one? Not every
> >language recognizes the same character equivalences.
>
> In Unicode, there's theoretically no locale. Theoretically...
But it still has special-case mappings such as LATIN SMALL LETTER I can
map to either LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I or LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT
ABOVE, depending on whether your <censored> is Turkish-y or not. That's
kind of like locale, even if you don't call it that. (And IIRC, the
mapping of uppercase(LATIN LETTER SHARP S) to "SS" is also a special case
for German.)
Cheers,
Philip
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