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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:50:08 +0100
From: Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii
all day long
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Hi!
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800
felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> In Germany is a district "Busingen", with an umlauted 'u'. Is it
> reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the
> unlauted u?
No. For many words it would be ok, but not for all. For example,
"drucken" means "to print", "dr=FCcken" (with an umlaut) means "to
press". In German you can exchange an umlaut with the combination "base
letter + e", i.e. =FC --> ue, =F6 --> oe, and =DF --> ss. There are words
with the combination "oe" that is in that particular case does not mean
"=F6". So it's not straight forward, especially with names. Those may
have a rather odd spelling for historical reasons.
> Or put another way, I don't know much about German, French, Spanish,
> etc keyboards. Do your keyboards have any of the extra keys, all of
> them? Are German keyboards and French and Spanish keyboards as
> restricted to their own languages as US keyboards are? If you have to
> hit two or three keys to keep the umlauts, accents, and tildes, do you
> get lazy sometimes and type the base character by itself? Is it even
> considered the base character, or is it considered lazy and sloppy,
> much as I get complaints about typing "thru" because "through" is too
> much trouble?
German keyboards have keys for all umlauts and '=DF'. You can google for
pictures of different keyboard layouts.
> I need something the equivalent of the C function strcasecmp() which
> not only ignores case, but all other differences without distinction,
> whatever they may be.
I'd suggest you use a unicode library. BTW, what about cyrillic
letters or other alphabets? Those may have nothing to do with ASCII. Or
is your project restricted to latin letters?
Cheers,
Renat
--=20
Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen,
durch die sie entstanden sind.
(Einstein)
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