Since when does Spanish drop accent markers in capital form? If you have seen anybody do this, it is just a misspelling. For example: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ópera or http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/África or http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Océano_Índico
I have been told that Greek drops accents in capital form but this may not be true. Other than that, though, I am not acquainted with any language that does such a thing (but of course that doesn't mean none exist). Mark skype: node.ue On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Brion Vibber<[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/28/09 10:04 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Mark Williamson<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Case insensitivity shouldn't be a problem for any language, as long as >>> you do it properly. >>> >>> Turkish and other languages using dotless i, for example, will need a >>> special rule - Turkish lowercase dotted i capitalizes to a capital >>> dotted İ while lowercase undotted ı capitalizes to regular undotted I. >> >> And so what if a wiki is multilingual and you don't know what language >> the page name is in? What if a Turkish wiki contains some English >> page names as loan words, for instance? > > Indeed, good handling of case-insensitive matchings would be a big win > for human usability, but it's not easy to get right in all cases. > > The main problems are: > > 1) Conflicts when we really do consider something separate, but the case > folding rules match them together > > 2) Language-specific case folding rules in a multilingual environment > > Turkish I with/without dot and German ß not always matching to SS are > the primary examples off the top of my head. Also, some languages tend > to drop accent markers in capital form (eg, Spanish). What can or should > we do here? > > > A nearer-term help would be to go ahead and implement what we talked > about a billion years ago but never got around to -- a decent "did you > mean X?" message to display when you go to an empty page but there's > something similar nearby. > > If it's at least trivial to click through from [[New york city]] to > [[New York City]], that's better than having to search for it anew. > > Of course we have some case-insensitive matching for near-matches on > "go" searches... we could pull from that easily. [Note this is done via > TitleKey for full case-insensitivity at present... and it probably > doesn't handle Turkish correctly yet.] > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
