Tim: >> Beg yours? There's plenty of procedures for treating "A" as "a" in >> computing. Chris Adams: > In 7 bit ASCII, sure. But the world has moved on (since most of the > worlds' languages don't work in 7 bit ASCII), and UTF makes this vastly > more complicated (including rules that change based on the current > locale). Though we're not supposed to use such characters in the names... Anyway, being really pedantic. In the English language, it's certainly possible (and acceptable) to fold upper- down to lower-case, or vice versa. Other languages will have similar positions (it's acceptable and doable). And yes, there will be some characters that don't have mutually equivalent meanings, which have be treated separately, there's nothing new in that, either. e.g. A-Z is treated the same as a-z, because it's acceptable and possible. We don't treat the unshifted 0-9 with the shifted ) to ( characters as being equivalent, as they're not. There's nothing particularly special about rules that say character numbers so-and-so are equivalent to character numbers so-and-so, in sections throughout the repertoire, with other blocks of characters that don't have equivalents. Unicode just extends the size of the repertoire. And while UTF-8 encoding complicates things, it always has, particularly when programmers try doing things without decoding it properly. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
