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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The extension of Is_Basic to unicode (about AI12-0260-1) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:54:59 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <7d5b8717-1e70-4153-af13-dfab24679ed9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: XdjV4tYMtFfMKGpv0MuDzQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Content-Language: fr X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51450 Date: 2018-04-11T22:54:59+02:00 List-Id: Le 11/04/2018 à 16:32, Dan'l Miller a écrit : >> True if Item is a basic letter. A basic letter is a character that >> is in one of the ranges 'A'..'Z' and 'a'..'z', or that is one of >> the following: 'Æ', 'æ', 'Ð', 'ð', 'Þ', 'þ', or 'ß'. > If this Ada-specific definition of this is-basic/base-Latin-letter > property is the official normative list, then it seems rather > arbitrary and capricious, not conforming to Unicode or to linguistic > reality. > > In Unicode-speak's terminology/jargon, the definition of base > character at https://definedterm.com/a/definition/160575 would admit > quite a few more, [...] The above Is_Basic is about Character, and is defined only when using Latin-1. Unicode is a different standard. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr