From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5b811babbc7e6a7a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Int. letters & is_basic Date: 1996/02/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 139876052 references: <4g0vtl$80a@toads.pgh.pa.us> <4g2pdc$15lc@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Norman says "letter with any diacritical mark removed. Therefore, A.3.2(27) is incorrect not to have listed a_ring and o_oblique_stroke among the basic [letters]" No, Norman is wrong here. We discussed this in WG9 specifically. We knew that A-ring is a "real" letter. However, the decision as to what are diacritical marks and what are not is indeed not uniform across the users of Latin-1. The definition of Basic and To_Basic are based on a simple rule derived from the names used in the ISO standard. They are well defined, but maybe not what is needed in some particular national contexts. Norman, this specific point was discussed at the CRG meeting held at the Villars meeting. We all understood the problem perfectly well, but there is really no other possible solution than that taken in the RM that would hold water. Personally I wanted to remove Basic and To_Basic compleely, but could not get agreement on this. P.S. CLA readers may be amused by Jean Ichbiah's "crossword" test here.The question is whether different versions of a letter can be used for the down and across clues. The answer for E-Acute in French is for example yes, the answer for A-Ring and A in Swedish or N and N-tilde in Spanish is no.