How does the "y" in the English word "rhythm" fit in here? I am not sure if
it is called a vowel in English.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philipp Reichmuth" <uzsv2k@uni-bonn.de>
To: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>
Cc: <Unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: New version of TR29:
> Hello Marco,
>
> Your definition of "LatinVowel" is problematic. Is "Y" only a vowel in
> French? In a word such as "yeux", it certainly is a consonant. Could
> this lead to problems?
>
> Defining such classes has the problem that they easily appear too
> general. The mere name "LatinVowel" looks too much like this class was
> supposed to contain all vowels of the Latin script regardless of
> language, but these wouldn't obviously be limited to your selection.
> You have to make this really clear. It is *so* tempting to assume that
> these are all the possible vowels that somebody is probably going to
> do it and base some completely non-apostrophe-related algorithm on it,
> just because he can easily extract this information from some Unicode
> data.
>
> Better name them something less potentially misleading like
> ItalianFrenchVowel, if you need this character class - it also better
> reflects the purpose of the thing.
>
> Philipp
>
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