Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, Feb 12 2016, Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote:
> No wonder that so many people seems to have a hard time recognizing that
> ñ is a letter like any other in Spanish, not just an `n' with a tilde.

Actually, without wanting to be pedantic, but ⟨ñ⟩ (the grapheme) *is*
just an ⟨n⟩ with a tilde, regardless of the language one is talking
about. The reason why a native speaker of Spanish considers n and ñ to
be two different letters is because they represent two different
*phonemes* of the Spanish language: /n/ vs. /ɲ/.

The term `letter' (as an alphabetic character) is notoriously imprecise,
which is the cause of much confusion.

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Joost Kremers
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