From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: alphabets resp. locales
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:52:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47905B2A-93EE-4F42-9444-F4CF5E150841@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C62AA24.8050707@easy-emacs.de>
Am 11.08.2010 um 15:48 schrieb Andreas Röhler:
> I'm sure Emacs has already an instance of it, as [[:alpha:]] is
> working.
As I mentioned: this test or set has nothing to do with an "alphabet"
of a natural, spoken and/or written, language. The alphabetic
characters are no digits and not graphic and neither control
characters and can be converted to either lowers or uppers, i.e., an
upper and a lower case exist. In other words: they are word
components. Words don't contain digits, $, &, etc. Dotless i and j,
German ß, as just a few modern examples from the Latin based scripts,
are a bit problematic (only one case). All alphabetic characters
delimit the word from inside the word, non-alphabetic characters embed
the words into a sentence or part of a sentence (in case the speaker
suddenly dies or is interrupted).
--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen
Pete
Es geht nix über eine elektrische Klobürste!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-11 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-11 7:51 alphabets resp. locales Andreas Röhler
2010-08-11 11:31 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-08-11 11:56 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-11 13:05 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-08-11 13:48 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-11 14:52 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2010-08-13 3:04 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-08-13 6:22 ` Andreas Röhler
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2010-08-11 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
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