RE: What is this "case folding"?

2000-07-11 Thread Asmus Freytag
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

Re: What is this "case folding"?

2000-07-11 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
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

RE: What is this "case folding"?

2000-07-11 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
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

Re: What is this "case folding"?

2000-07-10 Thread Mark Davis
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: > >

Re: What is this "case folding"?

2000-07-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
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 >Accusplit pedometer, purchased ab

Re: What is this "case folding"?

2000-07-10 Thread J . Schneider
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Re: What is this "case folding"?

2000-07-10 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
than you? Yes, you would not do it with all strings, but in some cases it is very reasonable (and desired) behavior. michka - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 7:43 AM Subject: What

What is this "case folding"?

2000-07-10 Thread 11digitboy
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)? -- Robert Lozyniak Accusplit pedometer, purchased about 2000a07l01d19h45mZ, has NOT FLIPPED My page: http://walk.to/11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (917) 421-3909 x