Bryan C Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 21 January 2002 16:43, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Changing the capitalization of C does not change the word. > Er, most of the time. No, pretty much all of the time. There are differences between proper nouns and common nouns, but those are differences routinely quashed as a typesetting decision; if you write both proper nouns and common nouns in all caps as part of a headline, the lack of distinction is not considered a misspelling. Similarly, if you capitalize the common noun because it occurs at the beginning of the sentence, that doesn't transform its meaning. Whereas adding or removing an accent is always considered a misspelling, at least in some languages. It's like adding or removing random letters from the word. re'sume' and resume are two different words. It so happens that in English re'sume' is a varient spelling for one meaning of resume. I don't believe that regexes should try to automatically pick up varient spellings. Should the regex /aerie/ match /eyrie/? That makes as much sense as a search for /resume/ matching /re'sume'/. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
