Re: vowels in oracle

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:43:05 +0200
Message-ID: <f9hbv9$qr0$1@news1.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

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DA Morgan wrote:
> Frank van Bortel wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:

>>>> Terry Dykstra wrote:
>>>>> So how do you deal with the Dutch 'ij' combination, somewhat similar
>>>>> to the 'y'.
>>>> By using REPLACE.

>
> And the real question is, of course: how do you tell
> replace to treat 'ij' (actually: "ÿ" (0x0152))
> as a single character?

> Well if you've got the right character set ... you've answered
> your own question. <g>

The question is: how to handle the two characters "ij" as a single character; not many keyboards support "ÿ", so "ij" is used.

This situation can be extended to more languages: German has the Ringel-s, (0x0225 "ß"), now often written as "sz" (think it's even official now - native Germans around, that can clear that?)
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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