Ar 02:04 -0800 2000-06-16, scr�obh [email protected]:
>On such documents (driving licenses, passports, etc.), the matter is
>normally settled solomonically by using all capitals.
>
>BTW, I see from my passport that this does not fix all problems anyway: the
>Irish Gaelic version of "REPUBLIC OF ITALY" has a lowercase "h" although it
>is all capitals.
I suppose it says POBLACHT NA hIOD�ILE, which would be correct, as h- is a
mutation (the nominative is IOD�IL) and the rule in Irish is that this and
other mutations (mB-, gC-, nD-, bhF-, nG-, bP-, tS-, dT-) are not to be
capitalized. Writing POBLACHT NA HIOD�ILE would in fact be an error.
Just another amazing feature of human language which automatic algorithms
have trouble with. Important for database entry and things like that:
software that insists that the first letter be capitalized or that all
letters be capitalized is utterly evil. :-)
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