From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sun Jun 11 2006 - 15:09:34 CDT
Philippe Verdy wrote on Sunday, June 11, 2006 at 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: Tentative Definition of Casefolding
> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com>
>> Yes, but consider titlecasing 'ffrench' in the appropriate English
>> locale!
> Huh? There's no French word that starts with a double F, so a double-f
> ligature (which has compatibility equivalence with <f, f>) will not occur
> in positions where titlecasing applies, not even in English.
> "Ffrench" or "Ffrançais" or "ffrench" or "ffrançais" do not exist in
> French! And there's no titlecasing in the middle of a word in French.
'ffrench', 'ffinch' and 'ffife' are all English surnames. Just google for
them! I didn't mean to cause confusion. I'm not aware of this phenomenon
in any other language, though surnames beginning with a uncapitalised
grammatical word are common enough.
My point was that where initial 'ff' titlecases to 'ff', titlecase("f") +
lowercase("french") is not equal to titlecase("ffrench"), but there is
nothing defective about either substring.
Richard.
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