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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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Ivan Andrus |
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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
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Sun, 21 Feb 2016 11:48:45 -0700 |
On Feb 21, 2016, at 10:23 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:58:37 +0800
>> From: Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>, emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>>
>> Now, other languages may use the character (in the Unicode sense) ö as a
>> variation of o. In other words, o
>> with ¨ on top of it. For users of such languages ö is just a variation of o
>> as we also have discussed before. On
>> the other hand, ø is not used as a variation of o in any language that I am
>> aware of.
>
> I don't think this is correct. I think ö is a letter on its own in
> any language that uses it. Which is why I don't see how it is
> different from ø.
Well, the New Yorker writes coöperate [1], though it’s definitely an o. That
said, I don’t think we should worry overly about that case, since we Americans
will want o to match them all. :-)
-Ivan
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English
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