Re: Case mapping of dotless lowercase letters

From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 18:02:12 EST

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    Philippe Verdy wrote:
    >>The caveats are well-known and well-publicized. If you want
    >>Turkic-specific case mapping behavior, you really have to use the
    >>Turkic-specific case mapping tables.
    >
    > I already use this Turkic specific mappings. They have no problems at all if
    > I use "C" + "T".
    >
    > There is also no problem in the simple mappings: "C" + "S".
    >
    > The problems come when I use the non-Turkic full mappings: "C" + "F".
    >
    > So reread what I said, and now just consider the existing CaseFolding rules,
    > when all "T" rules are removed, and only "C" (common) and "F" (Full)
    > mappings are used...

    It still comes back to what Doug said: The default rules make sense for most languages, while in
    order to make sense for Turkic languages, you must use special rules for them. There is no way
    around it - it comes from the fact that they use the same letters in a different way.

    markus



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