Re: vowels in oracle

From: Malcolm Dew-Jones <yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>
Date: 10 Aug 2007 11:21:23 -0800
Message-ID: <46bcaca3$1@news.victoria.tc.ca>

DA Morgan (damorgan_at_psoug.org) wrote:
: Frank van Bortel wrote:
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: >> Terry Dykstra wrote:
: >>> So how do you deal with the Dutch 'ij' combination, somewhat similar
: >>> to the 'y'.
: >> By using REPLACE.
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: > And the real question is, of course: how do you tell
: > replace to treat 'ij' (actually: "ÿ" (0x0152))
: > as a single character?
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: > Regards,
: > Frank van Bortel
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: > Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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: Well if you've got the right character set ... you've answered
: your own question. <g>

How many vowels in "Yes" ?
How many vowels in "Why" ?

Me thinks that the solution needs to ignore various real world complexities.

The unicode standard has details on vowels, so I would look there for which characters to count, taking the character set into account if necessary (and ignoring various real world complexities). Received on Fri Aug 10 2007 - 14:21:23 CDT