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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:27:22 +0100 (CET) |
> > Well, being Austrian, I would like to have a full equivalence of
> > ø to ö while searching in German data...
>
> In what use case would that make a difference, and how?
For example, the word `Øre' is usually written `Öre' in German (and
this is true for essentially all words containing ø), so it would be
good if a search for the latter finds the former and vice versa.
> ø is not normally used in German, right?
It is not used in the German language, but today there is a tendency
in German speaking countries to use the original spelling in foreign
words. However, during history many words were also `germanized' by
adapting the spelling to German (i.e., becoming loan words), and here
only German characters are used. In many cases accents were lost
during the conversion to loan words; for example, a quite common name
in German and Austria is `Dvorak', with the original Czech spelling
being `Dvořák'.
Werner
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Werner LEMBERG, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/25
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/25
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/26
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/27
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/27