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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:48:34 +0200
Date: 2011-10-12T15:48:34+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4r1gqrovnlyw$.u64367deu6pt$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4e959011$0$6627$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:03:13 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> But I imagine a language rule that addresses common sense
> more than it does the mechanics of Unicode or the history
> of writing; it might even be easy to implement:

Speaking of common sense one should simply drop � and all other letters not
present in 7-bit ASCII.
 
>  Any simple name shall include alphabetic characters from
>  only one "alphabet".

That does not solve the problem. If �=ss, then sch=sh, when matching two
simple names of different alphabets. How are you going to tag names?

   German#acce�#  
   US#access#

(:-))

> Presuming some practical definition of "alphabet".

For example?

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-12 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10 16:30 sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 16:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-10 18:23   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 22:25     ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-11  7:36       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11  7:41         ` sharp ß " Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11  8:33           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 20:32             ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12  7:43               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12  9:42                 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-10-12 12:09                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 20:17                 ` sharp " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 21:18                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 17:33     ` sharp ß " Martin Krischik
2011-10-11 18:54       ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-12 13:03       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 13:48         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-10-12 18:24           ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 20:06             ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 20:48             ` sharp ß " Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 22:56               ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like AC CESS Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13  8:10                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 12:13                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 13:25                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 15:18                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 19:17                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11  7:33   ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11 14:32     ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-11 17:26   ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS (better not) Martin Krischik
2011-10-12 12:34     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 17:22 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Simon Wright
2011-10-10 17:45 ` AdaMagica
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