Hi, if you go on http://www.dict.cc <http://www.dict.cc>and type "schoen" then it will give you the answers "schön" ...
I thought that using ICU, I could interrogate my database in the same way. (I am doing this kind of application for students only) I am actually learning german and my teacher also confirmed that we could use "oe" instead of "ö" even if we don't use it... Are you sure that ICU does not cover those cases? Best regards, Sylvain On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: > > On 20 Dec 2009, at 5:29am, Sylvain Pointeau wrote: > > > but in german, "*schön*< > http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/sch%C3%B6n.html>" > > can be written "schoen" right? > > In German German, the rules is that one can do this only when using > equipment in which the umlaut does not appear. For instance, proper 7-bit > ASCII lacks accented characters, so writing "schoen" in old technology is > acceptable. If you are using an American keyboard, that is also a good > excuse. But Unicode includes the umlaut so typing "schoen" in unicode, if > your hardware and software makes the "ö" possible, is a spelling error. It > is a mark of respect, if your company deals with a German client or > supplier, not to use 'oe' if you can avoid it, especially not in someone's > name. > > I do not know if Swiss German has the same rule. Also, I do not know the > current thought in Germany: perhaps with computing technology German was > drifting to reluctant acceptance of 'oe' and only the wild success of > Unicode made it unnecessary. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
