On 7/28/10 8:07 PM, Michael Zedeler wrote: > On 2010-07-29 01:39, Jon Lang wrote: >> Aaron Sherman wrote: >>>> In smart-match context, "a".."b" includes "aardvark". >>> No one has yet explained to me why that makes sense. The continued >>> use of >>> ASCII examples, of course, doesn't help. Does "a" .. "b" include >>> "æther"? >>> This is where Germans and Swedes, for example, don't agree, but >>> they're all >>> using the same Latin code blocks. >> This is definitely something for the Unicode crowd to look into. But >> whatever solution you come up with, please make it compatible with the >> notion that "aardvark".."apple" can be used to match any word in the >> dictionary that comes between those two words. > The key issue here is whethere there is a well defined and meaningful > ordering of the characters in question. We keep discussing the nice > examples, but how about "apple" .. "ส้ม"?
I thought that was already disallowed by spec.