At 02:43 AM 7/11/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>To achieve case insensitive (or however "loose") comparison, an alternative
>to hidden case folding is using collation tables, that assign one or more
>levels of "weight" keys to each character. One good example of this is
>UTR#10 (http://www.un
At 08:27 PM 07/10/2000 -0800, Mark Davis wrote:
>While an interesting trivia question, there are enough homographs in
>English that the very small percentage of them that can (sometimes) be
>distinguished according to case is completely insignificant.
I first ran into the Polish/polish pair in a
Robert Lozyniak wrote:
> If it is what I think it is, I don't want it in English.
> How could it tell "aids" from "AIDS", for instance?
> Or "joy" from "Joy"(name)?
(C'mon, 11BB, you were supposed to know this one ;-)
Case folding (or case conversion) is the process of changing letters from
one
While an interesting trivia question, there are enough homographs in
English that the very small percentage of them that can (sometimes) be
distinguished according to case is completely insignificant.
Mark
"Robert A. Rosenberg" wrote:
> At 06:43 AM 07/10/2000 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
At 06:43 AM 07/10/2000 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>If it is what I think it is, I don't want it in English.
>How could it tell "aids" from "AIDS", for instance?
>Or "joy" from "Joy"(name)?
Or Polish (nationality) from polish (shine) .
>--
>Robert Lozyniak
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than
you?
Yes, you would not do it with all strings, but in some cases it is very
reasonable (and desired) behavior.
michka
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If it is what I think it is, I don't want it in English.
How could it tell "aids" from "AIDS", for instance?
Or "joy" from "Joy"(name)?
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