On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:09:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> writes:
> > In general, the problem is unsolvable. There are several look-alikes
> > among the Cyrillic, Greek, Latin and Cherokee blocks, among others.
>
> And those are not equivalent under normalization? That's a pity.
Why would they be? That would break spell-checking and searching
among other things.
> > There are a number of spaces, and apostrophes that will get confused
> > for each other.
>
> Hmm, perhaps it's best to recommend verification of identifiers by
> some kind of database lookup, at least if they contain non-ASCII
> characters.
Why a technical solution? Most letters will be disambiguated by
context, and if not, I can cut and paste. If it's on hard copy,
they obviously didn't care enough for me to get to it.
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