NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/std/internat/966

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Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!cwi.nl!dik
From: [e-mail] (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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Date: 1 Jan 93 11:09:47 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Vadim Antonov) writes:
 > In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dik T. Winter) writes:
 > > > My point was that there obviously are identifyable meta-alpahbets
 > > > covering several languages.
 > >I do think that the number in several is very small.
 >
 > With a trivial trick of including several codes for identical glyphs
 > for letters from different languages you can put all of them in ONE
 > meta-alphabet.
 >
As somebody else mentioned already: should a spelling-checker allow a
German A-umlaut in a Swedish word?  If so, what are the consequences,
if not, why not?

Moreover, one question: how would you encode the German A-umlaut such that
it sorts properly (i.e. as if it is the letter combination AE)?  Even in
a single language (German) you can not come up with a coding that gives
proper sorting.  And also how to code the German eszet such that when
uppercased it becomes the *two* letters 'SS' (and how do you lowercase
that again?  Things are not as simple as you appear to think.
--
dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj  amsterdam, nederland
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn  amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: [e-mail]