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Re: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters
- To: "Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters
- From: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:14:25 +0200
- Delivery-date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:26:21 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 23.09 +0000 00-09-16, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>But I'm curious about this Swedish colon. Does it have a position in
>the alphabet for the purpose of alphabetizing names, or is it ignored,
>or does it count as a word break? In the case of O'Brien, a human
>looking up the name in a list on paper would find it in the same place
>regardless of whether they were looking for O'Brien or obrien.
Colon is a punctuation mark in Swedish, but I still have it in my
name, just like your example with "O'Brien" which have a "'" in the
name I guess.
If you talk about matching and sorting the ':' is ignored just like
'v' and 'w' in many cases are treated as the same character (if we
talk about names).
Anyway, I feel that we dive into the localization issues, and I don't
like that existing on this mailing list.
paf