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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
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Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:15:11 -0500 |
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> Not sure what to explain, to tell the truth. What I had in mind is
> cases like á, which I don't think any user of any language will ever
> want to consider a non-decomposable character.
In French and Spanish, á is a decorated version of a. Perhaps there
is no language in which á has any other status.
My point about decorated letters is that _in general_ the list of
decorated versions of letters is language-dependent. For instance, ö
is a decorated o in English and French, but not in Swedish. The
tables that define decorated letters need to be language-specific.
If it happens that all languages agree about á, that won't be a problem.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/25
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/25
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/26
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/27
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/27
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/27
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/27
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/26
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, John Wiegley, 2016/02/27
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