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From:
Russ Allbery
Date:
January 21, 2002 13:43
Subject:
Re: on parrot strings
Message ID:
yl1ygjwfb0.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu
Hong Zhang <Hong.Zhang@corp.palm.com> writes:
> I disagree. The difference between 'e' and 'e`' is similar to 'c'
> and 'C'.
No, it's not.
In many languages, an accented character is a completely different letter.
It's alphabetized separately, it's pronounced differently, and there are
many words that differ only in the presence of an accent.
Changing the capitalization of C does not change the word. Adding or
removing an accent does.
> The Unicode compability equivalence has similar effect too, such as
> "half width letter" and "full width letter".
You'll find that the Unicode compatibility equivalence does nothing as
ill-conceived as unifying e and e', for very good reason because that
would be a horrible mistake.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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