Re: Fixing Two Unicode Asymmetries in case conversion

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Nov 13 1998 - 10:01:10 EST


Rick McGowan wrote:

> The Unicode Standard, 2.0, pages 6-7ff, talks about this a little. These
> are not canonical equivalents, so please don't encourage that sort of thing.
> You might be able to get the right glyph displayed (i.e., regular "i" with a
> dot), but 0069+0307 is not equivalent to 0069 alone...

True. But naive uppercasing gives 0049 0307, which *is*
canonically equivalent to 0130.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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