Re: [precis] local case mapping

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 10/08/2013 03:16 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 01:55:27PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> merely asked the key question, but left it unanswered: what are we
>> trying to accomplish here?
> Yeah, sorry that I wasn't clear.  I think the issue may actually be
> that we can't decide which is needed, and there's a temptation to make
> this local policy.  I think that's a bad idea: we should have one
> method.  Decisions like this are what "the customers" wanted, I
> think.
Agreed.
>   Therefore,
>
>> 1. Apply the language-sensitive mappings from SpecialCasing.txt
>> 2. Apply the context-sensitive (i.e., "language-insensitive") mappings
>> from SpecialCasing.txt
>>
>> I'm still not sure what to do about about full vs. simple case mapping,
>> but I see no strong reason to prefer simple case mapping because I don't
>> see a problem with our algorithm resulting in two characters (e.g.,
>> "ss") instead of one.
> I think all of these are right (so I think we should say that we don't
> prefer simple case mapping also).
>
> A
>
Well it's a bit mealy-mouthed for us to say we don't prefer simple case 
mapping. Better, I think, to say "apply full case mapping".

Peter