On Thursday 03 December 2009 20:20:03 fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean
converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I
know Unicode has a different normalize meaning, but for my purposes,
that has already been
I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean
converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I
know Unicode has a different normalize meaning, but for my purposes,
that has already been done. Maybe I should call it standardization or
make up a new
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 10:58:59AM +0900, daid kahl wrote:
I'm curious about your handling of Japanese, just because I'm living
outside Tokyo these days. My grasp on Japanese is basically rubbish,
but I can at least claim to know a thing or two.
Our handling is simple -- we don't yet. I
Our handling is simple -- we don't yet. I don't know how to handle
things like that, or the previous example of Copenhagen in different
languages. Look at Naples -- that's not what Italins call it. Venice
is really bad -- no idea how English got it so mangled. Speaking of
Japanese, their
such as (I am guessing now) saw-umm-bee-yaw-koo. To write Tokyo in
the proper furigana is probably something like toh-o-kee-yoh-o.
Oh, I should mention that this is in writing correct. But the yo is a
subscript, so it's also a modifier, so the ki part isn't pronounced,
it's modified into a
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:45:43AM +0900, daid kahl wrote:
Well, I don't think n is really a syllable. It's a sound, and it's
the only part of the syllabary in Japanese that doesn't have a vowel.
I'm not really convinced this is a syllable in reality.
It's certainly a syllable in their
Hey!
So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they
feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use
it?
You cannot simply leave the umlaut out since it is considered as a separate
letter for itself. You cannot choose whether to write an ö or an o.
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:17:30AM +0100, Patrick Holthaus wrote:
You cannot simply leave the umlaut out since it is considered as a separate
letter for itself. You cannot choose whether to write an ? or an o. Like
Renat said, there are words that completely change their meaning when
On Freitag 04 Dezember 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
If enough Europeans are in the habit of taking
shortcuts and skipping umlauts and accents and cedilla and tildes,
we don't. Because skipping Umlaut, accentco creates a completly new word.
Probably one that is already there.
Munster is a
On Friday 04 December 2009 15:42:56 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag 04 Dezember 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
If enough Europeans are in the habit of taking
shortcuts and skipping umlauts and accents and cedilla and tildes,
we don't. Because skipping Umlaut, accentco creates a
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:50:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Three consecutive e's looks weird
Are you calling my laptop weird?
;-)
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I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean
converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I
know Unicode has a different normalize meaning, but for my purposes,
that has already been done. Maybe I should call it standardization or
make up a new
Hi!
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800
fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it
reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the
unlauted u?
No. For many words it would be ok, but not for all. For example,
drucken means to
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:50:08PM +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
I'd suggest you use a unicode library. BTW, what about cyrillic
letters or other alphabets? Those may have nothing to do with ASCII. Or
is your project restricted to latin letters?
The data is already in normalized Unicode. My
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:07:26 -0800
fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they
feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use
it?
If you want to leave of the umlaut you have to be absolutely sure that
there exists no other
On Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
Hi!
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800
fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it
reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the
unlauted u?
No. For many words
On Friday 04 December 2009 00:07:33 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
Hi!
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800
fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it
reasonable to consider it the same
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Renat Golubchyk ragerm...@gmx.net wrote:
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:07:26 -0800
fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they
feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use
it?
If you want to
On 12/3/09, fe...@crowfix.com fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean
converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies.
I assume you have already removed the language problem from the
equation? I.e., the fact that København,
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:32:45PM -0200, Francisco Ares wrote:
What about a set of dictionaries? And also a library for mistyped word
search?
Way too much effort for this. Nice idea, might even be fun, but it's
just trying to avoid the common things, and I mainly wondered about
how often
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:38:34AM +0200, Arttu V. wrote:
I assume you have already removed the language problem from the
equation? I.e., the fact that K?benhavn, Copenhague, K??penhamina and
Copenhagen all mean the same place, just in different European
languages (Danish, Spanish, Finnish
look at my name, ok?
Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error.
Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ä, ö or ü, you must transform them to ae,
oe or ue.
On Friday 04 December 2009 02:03:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
look at my name, ok?
Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error.
Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ä, ö or ü, you must transform them to
ae, oe or ue.
Your name shows here in 7-bit ASCII:
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:03:23AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
look at my name, ok?
Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error.
Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ?, ? or ?, you must transform them to ae,
oe or ue.
I'd like to find a program which
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