That is a red herring. Whether or not two characters are distinct in NFD -- or NFC -- is completely orthogonal to whether they are considered a single unit in various processes, such as collation, searching, and matching.
âMark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexander Savenkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 06:04 Subject: Re: Importance of diacritics > On 15/07/2004 13:21, Alexander Savenkov wrote: > > > ... > > > >>By contrast, Ð and Ð are not interfiled. > >> > >> > > > >I canât see why you put these as an example. They are completely > >different letters (vowel and consonant), notwithstanding their similar > >look. ... > > > > I used these as an example because in Unicode Ð canonically decomposes > to Ð and breve, just like Ñ canonically decomposes to Ð plus diaeresis > (or umlaut? not sure what German bibliographers would make of this one), > and a diacritic folding would automatically fold Ð with Ð as well as Ñ > with Ð. I presume the former folding would be unacceptable to Russians, > at least in some contexts. > > -- > Peter Kirk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) > http://www.qaya.org/ > > >
