Re: unicode: é=>e, á=>a
From: Wes Groleau (groleau+news_at_freeshell.org)
Date: 02/24/05
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:23:46 -0500
Calle Dybedahl wrote:
> No, that would be worse. If you just remove the characters that can't
> be displayed (preferably replacing them with question marks or
> something similar), it's obvious that your text has been changed. If
> you try to remove what you think are accents you are quite likely to
> inadvertently change the meaning of the text. For example, in Swedish
> text you would change the word for "to hear" ("höra") to the word for
> "whore" ("hora"). In any reasonably professional context this will
> very rarely be to your advantage.
Or in Spanish, you might change
"Tengo veinte años" (I'm twenty years old) to
"Tengo veinte anos" (I have twenty anuses).
On the other hand, I would think that people
who use terminals/systems not capable of displaying
diacritics would be well-accustomed to seeing such
"errors." _Especially_ since so many people who
ARE capable of handling them are too lazy to do so
or just plain don't know how.
--
Wes Groleau
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1. Don't attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.
2. Don't attribute to stupidity that which
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3. Don't attribute to ignorance that which
can be adequately explained by misunderstanding.
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