- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 11:39:39 JST
- To: sint@oeaw.ac.at (Peter Paul Sint)
- Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, keld@dkuug.dk, martin@terena.nl, wg-i18n@terena.nl, uri@bunyip.com
> >> While uppercase mapping is culturally sensitive, can we not make a > >> culturally independent 'character matching' algorithm that is good > >> enough for directory services. > >Theoretically, it is a union of all the matching rules of all > >the culture. But, in practice, it is hard especially because > >the expected degree of matching differs service by service. It's a union. OK? > German has a lower case letter > (looks like a beta Of course. > You would never write umlaut A as an A. (only aliens do so - and software). Of course. > The back transformation is not unique! Of course. But, it is not a problem if, with some internationalized non-strict directory service, a pattern of umlaut 'A' matches both 'a', 'A', umlaut 'a', umlaut 'A', 'ae' and 'AE'. Masataka Ohta
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