----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)
> Jean-Fran?ois Colson scripsit:
>
> > Does that mean that any unicode software should use them in the same
way?
> > When I google for a Dutch word with a lange ij, the results are not the
same
> > for e.g. "IJsland" (47500 pages) and "??sland" (only 17 pages).
>
> "Should" is the operative word.
>
> > That decomposition is listed in
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0100.pdf.
> > OK. They use the symbol U+2248 ALMOST EQUAL TO instead of U+2261
IDENTICAL
> > TO, but it is listed.
>
> U+2261 is used to show a compatibility decomposition, and U+2248 to show
> a compatibility decomposition.
Both are used to show a compatibility decomposition?
>
> --
> John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com
www.ccil.org/~cowan
> "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample
proves
> my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception
puts
> the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for
an
> exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted
from."
>