From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: simon@josefsson.org, handa@m17n.org, schwab@suse.de,
cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr, eliz@gnu.org, kevin@atkinson.dhs.org
Subject: Re: [yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr: Locale Dependent Downcasing in smtpmail]
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:31:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HaEl9-0007TD-W6@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46174883.4090107@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:30:11 +0200)
> 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 `ß' is converted to `SS'. The conversion of `ß' 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 `ß'. I do plan on dealing with this
eventually.
That is not a problem for the method I have in mind. Emacs can
generate all the possible downcasings of a word containing SS,
then send each one to Aspell to see if it is the right one.
Aspell can handle lower-case words, so this will work.
Meanwhile, this suggests a way that Aspell could handle the upper case
German words: generate the various possible downcasings of it. (If
there are N occurrences of SS, there will be 2**N possible
downcasings.) Then see if any of them is in the dictionary. If so,
the upper case word is valid. Otherwise, construct the union of the
suggestion-lists from the various possible downcasings.
I cc'd the Aspell maintainer so that he will see this idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-07 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-31 20:43 [yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr: Locale Dependent Downcasing in smtpmail] Richard Stallman
2007-04-01 17:39 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-02 6:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-04-02 22:52 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-02 23:20 ` Volkan YAZICI
2007-04-03 1:24 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-04-03 21:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-02 17:31 ` Volkan YAZICI
2007-04-03 8:06 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-04-03 8:28 ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-04-03 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-03 9:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-04-03 13:44 ` Volkan YAZICI
2007-04-03 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-03 15:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-03 16:03 ` Andreas Schwab
[not found] ` <87k5wt5tnx.fsf@ttnet.net.tr>
2007-04-03 16:21 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <87slbhquuw.fsf@ttnet.net.tr>
2007-04-03 18:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-03 16:30 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-03 17:57 ` with-case-table / ascii-case-table (was: [yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr: Locale Dependent Downcasing in smtpmail]) Reiner Steib
2007-04-04 15:40 ` with-case-table / ascii-case-table Chong Yidong
2007-04-04 14:02 ` [yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr: Locale Dependent Downcasing in smtpmail] Richard Stallman
2007-04-04 14:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-05 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-06 6:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-04-06 6:49 ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-04-06 7:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-04-06 7:30 ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-04-06 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-06 9:24 ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-04-06 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-07 8:01 ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-04-06 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-07 7:30 ` martin rudalics
2007-04-07 17:31 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-04-04 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-05 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-06 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-06 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-07 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-07 15:03 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-07 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-07 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-07 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-03 21:16 ` Davis Herring
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