On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:50:57PM -0400, Jim Jewett wrote: > On 6/7/07, Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:06:05PM -0400, Jim Jewett wrote: > > > (There were mixed opinions on Technical symbols, and no one has spoken > > > up yet about the half-dozen Croatian digraphs corresponding to Serbian > > > Cyrillic.) > > If the digraphs were converted to compatibility characters, would > that be good, bad, or no big deal? > > I'm not entirely certain which letters Stephen was talking about, but > believe they are the (upper, lower, and titlecase) digraphs for LJ, NJ, > DZ, DŽ (DZ caron) > > Would it be acceptable if (only in identifier names, not normal text) > python treated those the same as the two-character sequences LJ, NJ, > DZ, and DŽ?
I speak Serbian as a second language (and lived in Serbia for a few years), and my opinion is that a Serbian/Croatian speaker would expect the digraphs to be treated the same as the two-character sequences. The issue doesn't seem to come up too often, but people using typewriters have been typing the digraphs as separate characters for years. The place I noticed the issue most frequently was if there was a vertical sign, such as a storefront. A sign saying "bookstore" would like like this: K nj i ž a r a or: K nj i ž a r a The following would be incorrect: K n j i ž a r a But even many native speakers make this mistake. Other than that, nj is practically indistinguishable from nj, and the other Croatian digraphs have the same behavior. I hope this helps in the discussion. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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