Re: [precis] local case mapping

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

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.  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

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