Re: More character matching bits

[Damien Neil]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:14:37PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I don't think canonicalization should do this. (I really hope not) This
> > isn't really a canonicalization matter--words written with one character
> > set aren't (AFAIK) the same as words written with the other, and which
> > alphabet you use matters. (Which sort of argues against being able to do
> > this, I suppose...)
> 
> I guess I don't know what the definition of "the same thing" you're using
> here is.

I believe Dan was referring to allowing a regex /ka/, to match either
"ka" or "KA", where "ka" is KATAKANA LETTER KA and "KA" is HIRAGANA
LETTER KA.

In Japanese, ka and KA are two ways of writing the same syllable, in
much the same way that LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A and LATIN SMALL LETTER A
are.  (Perhaps this is an argument for the /i modifier to apply to
more than just case?)

                      - Damien