Re: Compliant Tailoring of Normalisation for the Unicode Collation Algorithm

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 17:05:00 +0100

On Sun, 20 May 2012 16:15:24 +0100
Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:

CORRECTION:

> For the general case, we ought to be able to express a rule such as
> 'ignore the countering of sof-dottedness', as in Lithuanian casing,
> but I don't see any finite method of expressing it under the UCA,

As we have discontiguous contraction, the three rules for
0049+0307+0300 etc. will cover Lithuanian quite nicely. In general,
we need the rules for <soft-dotted indecomposable>+0307+<ccc=203>, a
finite set. These then remove the Lithuanian FCD booby traps.

Richard.
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