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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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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?

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