From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: sharp � and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:35 -0500
Date: 2011-10-11T15:32:35-05:00 [thread overview]
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I believe (but haven't checked carefully), that Unicode case folding never
treats Cyrillic and Latin characters as the same (even when it could). So
this problem would not come up in Ada.
Randy.
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:41:44 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:
>
>> Le Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:36:31 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov
>> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a �crit:
>>> One still can fool it by using Cyrillic a (0430), c (0441), e (0435).
>>
>> But Cyrillic letters does not look the same:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic#Letters
>>
>> What do you mean ?
>
> ????ss (typed in Cyrillic, except for "ss", if you have an Unicode
> reader)
>
> Some of Cyrillic letters look same. Many are just same. There are same
> letters with different phonetic meaning than their Latin counterparts.
> Here
> is an incomplete list of same looking letters. The left side is Latin, the
> right side is Cyrillic.
>
> a = ?
> y = ? (but means "u")
> k = ? (has shorter vertical dash, capital letters are identical)
> e = ?
> h ~ ? (capital letters are identical, the meaning is "n")
> x = ? (but means "h")
> b ~ ? (capital letters are identical, the meaning is "v")
> p = ? (the meaning is "r")
> o = ?
> c = ? (the meaning is "s")
> m = ? (capital letters are identical)
> t = ? (capital letters are identical)
>
> Earlier 7-bit Cyrillic encodings used phonetic equivalence of letters. For
> example in KOI-7 (???-7) the codes both A's differs in one bit.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 20:32 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 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2011-10-12 7:43 ` sharp � " 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
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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