From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sat Nov 14 2009 - 21:28:16 CST
"sergey" <sergey dash feo at yandex dot ru> wrote:
> Neil, it is exactly what I want! File
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr39/data/confusables.txt can be used to
> implement search with similar symbols matching. Now I can send feature
> requests to developers of my favorite text editors :-)
Don't let me stop you, but I predict that developers who take on this
challenge will quickly find themselves stuck between:
ROCK: Many uppercase letters that are "identical" or "similar" across
scripts, such as Latin B and Greek Β and Cyrillic В, turn out to be
dramatically different in lowercase: b, β, в.
HARD PLACE: Users of text editors expect searching and replacing
functions to have an "ignore case" option.
-- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s
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