- From: Alain LaBont/e'/ <alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:48:57
- To: Leslie Daigle <leslie@bunyip.com>
- Cc: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, URI mailing list <uri@bunyip.com>
A 12:40 97-05-05 -0400, Leslie Daigle a écrit : > >On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Alain LaBont/e'/ wrote: >> A 17:58 97-05-02 +0200, Martin J. Duerst a écrit : >> [Larry] : >> >> Using UCS in identifiers that are normally "case insensitive" >> >> in ASCII, and the issues, e.g., similar upper-case forms, >> >> the role of accents and equivalence. >> >[snip] [Alain] : >> However accents normally don't count much for alphabetic order, they are >> considerwed only in case of quasi-homography (cote, côte, coté, côté, >> pèche, pêche, péché). > [Leslie] : >My apologies if this has already been addressed earlier in the thread, but >this jumped out at me as being a potential point of confusion. > >Namely, while accents don't count for alphabetic order in French, there >are other languages with characters which can wrongly be perceived as "accented >characters" to people familiar with only a-z. > >For example, "o" and "ö" are unrelated characters in Swedish, so it >would be erroneous to say that they are equivalent in an accent-insensitive >search. Lexicographically, "ö" is the last character in the alphabet >in Swedish. > >So, "accent-insensitive" matching is pretty well language-dependent. [Alain] : Of course! Same for ñ which is simply an accented n in French cañon and a letter on its own in Spanish cañon... In other words, in Spanish, searching on "canon" shall never retrieve "cañon"; in French it could, for unprecise searches, as well as the word "canon"... Tack so myket! Alain LaBonté Québec
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