From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr: Locale Dependent Downcasing in smtpmail] Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:30:11 +0200 Message-ID: <46174883.4090107@gmx.at> References: <87wt0uhee5.fsf@ttnet.net.tr> <873b3hssyt.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <87y7l9608n.fsf@ttnet.net.tr> <87ircdh13m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175931321 3103 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2007 07:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 07:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: simon@josefsson.org, Kenichi Handa , schwab@suse.de, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr, eliz@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 07 09:34:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ha5RL-0001Sa-E0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:34:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ha5Ur-0008ST-UW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:38:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ha5Un-0008Os-AO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:38:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ha5Uk-0008KA-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ha5Uk-0008J8-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ha5R8-0000OY-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Apr 2007 07:34:07 -0000 Original-Received: from N834P026.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.48.58]) [62.47.48.58] by mail.gmx.net (mp048) with SMTP; 07 Apr 2007 09:34:07 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+bTk8yWpebqgOR8ji1r92Ofb59Gfgc8W77nWjfA/ renk2CD1Oe5BCA User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69151 Archived-At: > After the release, it would be good to design a new case conversion > system which can handle the cases where one letter converts to more > than one. It would be nice if it could even handle German. > This could be done thru the spell checker. Compare the following excerpt from the Aspell manual (appendix C.4): The German Sharp S or Eszett does not have an uppercase equivalent. Instead when `=DF' is converted to `SS'. The conversion of `=DF' to `SS'= requires a special rule, and increases the length of a word, thus disallowing inplace case conversion. Furthermore, my general rule of converting all words to lowercase before looking them up in the dictionary won't work because the conversion of `SS' to lowercase is ambiguous; it can be `ss' or `=DF'. I do plan on dealing with this eventually.