Hi, I think in 99% of all cases ö, ü, ä is equal to oe, ue, ae but I have no idea about ICU. Actually ö evolved from oe (I just learned that from wikipedia .-) ).
But there are some words like 'tu' (doing) with a form like e.g. 'Ich tue ...' (I am doing ...') where 'tue' is of course not equal to 'tü'. Jan Sylvain Pointeau schrieb: > Hi, > > if you go on http://www.dict.cc > <http://www.dict.cc>and type "schoen" then it will give you the answers > "schön" ... > > I thought that using ICU, I could interrogate my database in the same way. > (I am doing this kind of application for students only) > > I am actually learning german and my teacher also confirmed that we could > use "oe" instead of "ö" > even if we don't use it... > > Are you sure that ICU does not cover those cases? > > Best regards, > Sylvain > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: > >> On 20 Dec 2009, at 5:29am, Sylvain Pointeau wrote: >> >>> but in german, "*schön*< >> http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/sch%C3%B6n.html>" >>> can be written "schoen" right? >> In German German, the rules is that one can do this only when using >> equipment in which the umlaut does not appear. For instance, proper 7-bit >> ASCII lacks accented characters, so writing "schoen" in old technology is >> acceptable. If you are using an American keyboard, that is also a good >> excuse. But Unicode includes the umlaut so typing "schoen" in unicode, if >> your hardware and software makes the "ö" possible, is a spelling error. It >> is a mark of respect, if your company deals with a German client or >> supplier, not to use 'oe' if you can avoid it, especially not in someone's >> name. >> >> I do not know if Swiss German has the same rule. Also, I do not know the >> current thought in Germany: perhaps with computing technology German was >> drifting to reluctant acceptance of 'oe' and only the wild success of >> Unicode made it unnecessary. >> >> Simon. >> _______________________________________________ >> sqlite-users mailing list >> sqlite-users@sqlite.org >> http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >> > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
