<div dir="ltr">I think he is talking about japanese language specific thing. They have three different scripts - katakana, hiragana and kanji, and the same words can be written with any of these scripts using more or less standard conversion rules. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-02-07 8:09 GMT+03:00 Richard A. O'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz" target="_blank">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On 31/01/17 9:52 PM, zxq9 wrote:<br>
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That is just one problem. The lack of actual script casting VS only the special case of<br>
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upper() and lower() means that I cannot use any unicode library function to compare two<br>
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exactly equivalent strings that represent a user's name in sound-spelling.<br></span>
Can you clarify "sound-spelling" here?<br>
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Since the surname "Menzies" is, for example, pronounced something like<br>
"minnies" in Scotland but "menzees" in Australia, I' not sure how far<br>
"sound-spelling" would take us for Anglophone names.<br>
(There are plenty of other examples.)<br>
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For that matter, my mother's father's surname was Covič but in this<br>
country everyone pronounced it as if it was "Covick" so he and his<br>
brother, with the same surname, ended up pronouncing it differently.<br>
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I guess my point is that it's hard enough to tell when two names with<br>
the *same* spelling sound the same that I am in complete awe of anyone<br>
who manages to do a good-enough job telling when two *differently*<br>
spelled names sound the same. Do you use a massive locale-dependent<br>
dictionary, or what?<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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