In a message dated 2001-12-04 20:11:19 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> SC/TC equivalence itself is far simpler than the "four winds, two eggs" >> equivalences, and has quite a bit of merit. I won't express any >> real opinion on it until I study it further. > > It is not so simple as to be able to be done _accurately_ by an code-based1-1 > bit-string matching process. There are semantic, syntactic and contextual > considerations that require at the very least a morphological analysis process > in order for TC/SC to be done with a reasonable amount of accuracy (i.e. > orthographically). Thanks for saying with some authority what I have apparently been unable to communicate effectively, namely that TC/SC is not merely a 1-1 operation comparable to Latin case folding. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
