Kenneth Whistler scripsit:

> John Cowan noted:
> 
> <quote>
> Here's what happens exactly:
> 
>  source       simple case folding     full case folding       tr/az case folding
>  dotted i     dotted i                dotted i                dotted i
>  dotless i    dotless i               dotless i               dotless i
>  dotted I     dotted I                dotted i + comb. dot    dotted i
>  dotless I    dotted i                dotted i                dotless i
> </quote>

[snip]

> One moral of the story is: DO NOT USE COMBINING DOTS WITH I's.

A fine moral, indeed.  Unfortunately, full case folding generates such
things for downstream processes to trip over.  It's too late to fix
the RFCs, alas.

-- 
Where the wombat has walked,            John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
it will inevitably walk again.          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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