How does the "y" in the English word "rhythm" fit in here? I am not sure if it is called a vowel in English.
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philipp Reichmuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:16 PM Subject: Re: New version of TR29: > Hello Marco, > > Your definition of "LatinVowel" is problematic. Is "Y" only a vowel in > French? In a word such as "yeux", it certainly is a consonant. Could > this lead to problems? > > Defining such classes has the problem that they easily appear too > general. The mere name "LatinVowel" looks too much like this class was > supposed to contain all vowels of the Latin script regardless of > language, but these wouldn't obviously be limited to your selection. > You have to make this really clear. It is *so* tempting to assume that > these are all the possible vowels that somebody is probably going to > do it and base some completely non-apostrophe-related algorithm on it, > just because he can easily extract this information from some Unicode > data. > > Better name them something less potentially misleading like > ItalianFrenchVowel, if you need this character class - it also better > reflects the purpose of the thing. > > Philipp >
