Re: Case mapping of dotless lowercase letters

From: Chris Jacobs (chris.jacobs@freeler.nl)
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 21:21:14 EST

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
    To: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:00 PM
    Subject: Re: Case mapping of dotless lowercase letters

    > At 20:30 +0100 2003-12-16, Chris Jacobs wrote:
    >
    > > > NO. There's no canonical equivalence between distinct pairs of
    > > > characters, if the first letter of each pair are not also canonically
    > > > equivalent.
    > >
    > >compare ę̈ with ę̈
    > >
    > >The first pair has e trema as its first letter, the second pair e ogonek.
    > >Yet these pairs are canonical equivalent.
    >
    > The base letter is "e"

    Nope. That would be the base char of their NFD.
    The base chars of themselves are ë and ę.



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