----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:48 PM Subject: Re: Merging combining classes, was: New contribution N2676
> I offered a suggestion on cedilla and combining undercomma: > > > / It seems to me that Cedilla/undercomma folding would be a useful / > > /addition to "Character Foldings" at > > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr30. / > > and Philippe Verdy responded: > > > Excellent idea, however it has to be tailored by language: > > > > For example, Turkish and French (which almost always and consistently use > > preferably a cedilla) behave differently of Romanian and Latvian (which > > should use preferably a comma below). > > No. > > Forced tailoring by language would greatly reduce the usefulness of such > foldings for search purposes. I do think the opposite: one can fold all commas below to cedillas by default, and, in a Romanian or Latvian context, fold all cedillas below to commas below. This won't break searches for - Latvian or Romanian which would use localized folding to commas below, - for French or Turkish if they ever use the default folding to cedillas. - for generic multilanguage searches if they choose not to use that folding and keep cedillas distinct. The difference being only in the result of this folding.
