Re: vowels in oracle

"Frank van Bortel" <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> schreef in bericht news:f9hbv9$qr0$1_at_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: "�����" (0x0152))
>> as a single character?
>
>> Well if you've got the right character set ... you've answered
>> your own question. <g>
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> The question is: how to handle the two characters "ij"
> as a single character; not many keyboards support "�����",
> so "ij" is used.
>
> This situation can be extended to more languages: German
> has the Ringel-s, (0x0225 "�"), now often written
> as "sz" (think it's even official now - native Germans
> around, that can clear that?)
> - --
> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel
>
> Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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Shakespeare Received on Thu Aug 16 2007 - 03:51:17 CDT