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From:
Garrett Goebel
Date:
January 21, 2002 13:02
Subject:
RE: on parrot strings
Message ID:
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From: Hong Zhang [mailto:Hong.Zhang@corp.palm.com]
>
> > But e` and e are different letters man. And re`sume` and resume are
> > different words come to that. If the user wants something that'll
> > match 'em both then the pattern should surely be:
> >
> > /r[ee`]sum[ee`]/
>
> I disagree. The difference between 'e' and 'e`' is similar to 'c'
> and 'C'. The Unicode compability equivalence has similar effect
> too, such as "half width letter" and "full width letter".
German to English
schon => already
schön => nice
2 totally different words.
I'm sure there are words in some language where the difference between a 'e'
and 'e`' can be the difference between an insult and a compliment.
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