|
Title Case (Was: [OT] multilingual support in MS products: msg#00362text.unicode.devel
Doug, > But SpecialCasing.txt, along with the rest of the UCD, > defines how those algorithms should function and what entries the tables > should have. > > Whatever technique Turkish-aware programs currently use to recognize (I > and ı) and (İ and i) as case pairs, something similar should be done to > Dutch-aware programs so they recognize IJ as an inseparable digraph with > special casing behavior. This is *much* better than dragging the IJ and > ij compatibility characters out of the closet. Special casing deals with upper/lower case transformations not specifically a title case routine. The Turkish and Dutch work because all letters are converted. I found title case to be a much more challenging problem. There are problems with Macintosh vs. MacIntosh but the hardest problem I found was the problem of French articles. This takes a syntactical analysis. Carl
|
|
| <Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread> |
|---|---|---|
| Previous by Date: | Re: Unicode Normalization on MS-Windows, David Starner |
|---|---|
| Next by Date: | Re: [OT] multilingual support in MS products, John Clews |
| Previous by Thread: | Arabic text in Unicode hexadecimal code, Sheni R. Meledath |
| Next by Thread: | RE: Title Case (Was: [OT] multilingual support in MS products, Marco Cimarosti |
| Indexes: | [Date] [Thread] [Top] [All Lists] |
| News | FAQ | advertise |