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Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots
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Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:34:37 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Of course, to really solve these problems, after the release, we need
> a more thorough change. I think Greek uses two forms of lower-case
> sigma, one at the end of the word, one elsewhere. To downcase
> correctly requires determining where the sigma is. Then there's the
> problem of ß in German, which I believe should upcase to SS. And SS
> in some (but not all?) cases should downcase into ß in German.
>
> I think the mechanism of case tables is thus inadequate. The question
> is whether to replace it or extend it.
It may be useful to study how Unicode handle this problem, I believe
they have mechanisms to specify how to do up/down-case etc for
characters. It is a fairly complex problem in general.
This reminds me, now that the Unicode tables have been released under
a free license, would it make sense to extend C-x = (or probably
rather C-u C-x =) to display the Unicode database information for that
character? I would find that useful in many situations.
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, (continued)
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Dave Love, 2005/01/25
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Kenichi Handa, 2005/01/26
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/26
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Kenichi Handa, 2005/01/26
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/27
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Kenichi Handa, 2005/01/27
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/28
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots,
Simon Josefsson <=
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/28
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/01/28
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Simon Josefsson, 2005/01/28
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/28
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Simon Josefsson, 2005/01/28
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/01/28
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Simon Josefsson, 2005/01/28
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/01/29
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Dave Love, 2005/01/30
- Re: case-table functions clobbering extra slots, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/31