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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.157.1 with SMTP id z1mr5336382qaw.8.1364303620629; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:13:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.190.4 with SMTP id gm4mr21579obc.36.1364303620479; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!t2no17399390qal.0!news-out.google.com!k8ni10926qas.0!nntp.google.com!t2no17399382qal.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:13:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.59.115.2; posting-account=7Oy7OQoAAABhVYFOo553Cn1-AaU-bSfl NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.59.115.2 References: <514e1d12$0$6579$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <4fd11843-5c08-4414-93f1-e396f7caed03@googlegroups.com> <5150a88a$0$6556$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: The letter Sharp S and the English language From: Eryndlia Mavourneen Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:13:40 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:14724 Date: 2013-03-26T06:13:40-07:00 List-Id: > > Isn't this the issue of the two forms of 's' that John Barnes wrote about in > the Ada 2005 Rationale?? > > http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rat/html/Rat-7-5.html > > Randy John Barnes says, In some systems, such as the ideographic system used by Chinese, Japanese and Korean, there is only one case, so things are easy. But in other systems, like the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, upper and lower case characters have to be considered. But, of course, in languages using the Persian-Arabic script (such as Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu) we have to contend with 3 letter forms -- beginning-of-word, middle-of-word, and end-of-word. -- Eryndlia