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Re: vowels in oracle

From: Martin T. <0xCDCDCDCD_at_gmx.at>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:09:34 +0200
Message-ID: <46bc4794$0$1343$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere.com>


Frank van Bortel wrote:
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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?)
> - --

Well. "sz" is just a workaround that everyone will recognize. Nothing to replace it officially afaik.
Since ß and äöü are on all German keyboard anyway "sz" not used that much. People who don't like it more often ignore it completely by replacing most occurrences with "ss". But that's definitely not official. The german speaking swiss do not have "ß" at all though.

Ask and ye shall be answered :-)

cheers,
Martin Received on Fri Aug 10 2007 - 06:09:34 CDT

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