Re: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence

From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Date: Sun Jul 18 2004 - 04:06:48 CDT

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    W li¶cie z sob, 17-07-2004, godz. 16:46 -0700, Asmus Freytag napisał:

    > I wonder whether that's truly intended, or whether it could be replaced
    > by a combination of
    >
    > AccentFolding
    > OtherDiacriticFolding
    >
    > where AccentFolding removes *all* nonspacing marks following Latin, Greek
    > or Cyrillic letters and we would remove from DiacriticFolding all cases
    > that are already handled by accent folding.

    I don't think folding "cyrillic short I" to "I" would be right. While
    graphically it's a combining mark, semantically it would be like folding
    "I" with "J". What are the purposes of this folding?

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