Questions about Unicode, particularly Japanese

[Matti Niemenmaa]

On 2010-06-08 23:16, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Matti Niemenmaa"<see_signature at for.real.address>  wrote in message
> news:hum6ft$2jar$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 2010-06-08 22:27, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> 6. Are there other languages with similar things for which the answers to
>>> #3
>>> and #4 are different? (And if so, how does Phobos/Tango handle it?)
>>
>> Factor has pretty good support for Unicode:
>>
>> http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-unicode.html
>>
>
> Actually, I meant other human-languages. Like, are there other combining
> characters for some language other than Japanese that are indended to be
> compared as unequal to their corresponding singe-code-point version?

Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. :-)

I don't think so, no. The Unicode FAQ at 
http://www.unicode.org/faq/normalization.html says "Programs should 
always compare canonical-equivalent Unicode strings as equal".

> Any idea if "Ruby markup" has anything to do with the Ruby programming
> language? It's not clear from that Wikipedia article.

No, they're completely unrelated.

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