On Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:48 PM Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> va escriure:
> On 16/03/2004 07:35, Carl W. Brown wrote: > >> I suspect that just changing the font to eliminate the dot will be >> easier. Software won't have to be changed, existing code pages will >> not have to be changed, searches will work, etc. >> > It has the disadvantage of making these fonts useless for Turkish and > Azeri, How useful to Turks are the fonts used in France, where the style is small case or upper case only, and all the accents are removed (and please do not tell me that accents should be drawn on capitals: I know it, and I am not speaking about writing a book for Imprimerie nationale, but rather of fonts used for advertising, which was Marion's purpose). > And of course the fonts would not be acceptable > to most users of English and other Latin script languages. Again (apart from being suspicious: I certainly can decrypt Latin written in Uncial), what is the point? Are French Canadians *required* to understand French specificities (and vice-versa)? On a similar vein, are everybody required to understand the "hacker" script? (try <URL:http://www.google.es/search?q=hacker&hl=xx-hacker> to get my point) > On the other hand, the change to Unicode required for Irish to use > dotless i would be rather trivial, simply adding Irish to the existing > list currently consisting of Turkish and Azeri, to which Tatar, > Bashkir, Gagauz, Karakalpak and various minority languages of > Azerbaijan should also be added. Remember that in Marion original post, Irish written in "Roman script" should be written with dot (for example, because there are Turks living there, and they surely want their names written correctly when using "their" script; I know the name ought to be tagged for different language, but everybody know this is unpractical) So what you are proposing is to add another line to CasingRule, with the added discriminant of the script. Not as easy as one might expect. Furthermore, it has the very useful (from the point of view of some; very disastrous for others; and very expensive for many people, like me as European paytaxer ;-) see below for the reasonning) property that since Irish is a pretty common language with quite a bit of already encoded material, all this material will suddendly become obsolete and will need a careful examination to decide if any U+0069 should be recoded or not, based on the fact it is Irish or it is not (I am thinking here about EU material, where every non-Irish proper name inserted inside Irish text should NOT be converted). Also, Michael, tell us if your name when written inside some Irish text, should it be considered English, or Irish? Then, should the i be dotted? And if it is English, and not dotted, then we would add some more line to CasingRules, wouldn't we? ;-) Cheers to all, Antoine
