Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 1:20 |
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Tristan McLeay scripsit:
> How about when capitalising a word starting with IJ? Would you need to
> include a dictionary with words like IJsselmeer in any program that can
> capitalise words? (I guess IJsselmeer isn't the best example given that at
> least in (we-don't-need-no-stinken-non-ASCII-chars) English it _always_
> has the capital, but does Word know to not lowercase the J?)
Case mapping is inherently language-specific; Unicode provides a useful
set of defaults and some well-understood exceptions (like the treatment
of dotted and undotted i's in Turkish and Azeri), but the fine points
are outside its scope.
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