From: "てんどうりゅうじ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A search engine regards the words "stone" and "STONE" as identical. > So why isn't いし treated the same as イシ? The difference can be > quite marked, such as レイプ versus れいぷ or such.
Well, there is nothing to stop them from doing this -- some database engines allow you to do collation in a "kana-insensitive" way. But given that there is so little overlap between when each is used, some people prefer to keep them separate. > > Something I noticed in the Unicode 3.0 book: > > Case. (1) Feature of certain alphabets where the letters have two > distinct forms. These variants, which may differ markedly in shape and > size, are called the uppercase letter (also known as capital or majuscule) > and the lowercase letter (also known as small or minuscule). > (2) るるるるるる This is not really the same thing as Kana. Only differences that are *called* case really fall into this category. > So kana have case. Not really. See above. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. http://www.trigeminal.com/
