On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:07:32AM -0700, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>
> On Sep 23, 2006, at 2:20 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> >
> >But as a matter of fact, draft-newman-i18n-comparator-14 doesn't
> >define any collations that would actually solve the Unicode NF
> >issue, so it's not really clear how this helps CalDAV (except that
> >it now uses a framework in which the solution may become available
> >in the future).
> >
> >Maybe the set of initial registrations in <http://tools.ietf.org/
> >html/draft-newman-i18n-comparator-14#section-9> needs to be extended?
>
> Yes, I agree. That's one of the next steps and why a registry was
> created (so we could do it outside the base comparator draft).
>
> Last week Ted & I were discussing whether one could define a Very
> Liberal Comparator (VLC) for general use. It would be handy to have
> one which matched e with E, é, è É... and matched o with O, ø, ô, and
> so on. That would help in calendar searching use cases, e.g. a user
> who can't type in accents (or doesn't know how) wants to find the
> invitation from André by searching for "andre". It would probably be
> useful in many other cross-language or unknown-language situations too.
>
> Such a comparator would be most useful for exact and substring
> matches; I don't know offhand how it would best do ordering so it
> might not be as useful for ordering.
>
> I believe Arnt intends to continue working on this general problem,
> for which I'm very grateful, and other contributions would be most
> welcome.
>
> Lisa
>
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--bill
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