[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash brace expansion in non-C locales??

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-03-16 06:16, låzaro wrote:
> Could somebody from Rusia tell me what think about special characters?

Well, there are almost none in the alphabet. A couple of letters have
"embedded" apostrophes or carets (й vs и) and dots (ё vs е), but they
are static explicit symbols of the alphabet, with a defined position
and sound (though there was some movement to try and eradicate the
latter example, since many people are lazy and omit the dotty version).

Having an horde of lazy illiterate people was the basis for a number
of reforms in Russian language of the past century alone (i.e. the
big post-Revolution reform which dropped a quarter of the alphabet,
merging many similarly-sounding words into one) :)
As an example, Tolstoy's famous "War and Peace" (as it is known today)
was a pun on two spellings of "mir", one meaning peace, and another
for society. So the book was about the war's influence on society,
not the dialectics of war and lack thereof. And it had a funny name :)

Occasionally the accent character is given to specify the position
of vocal accentation of a word, especially when it makes a different
meaning (or implies something a bit differently) for words which
otherwise seem the same, but this is not standardized and is rather
done in casual handwriting (rarely in printed text) to disambiguate
the cases which might not be clear from context. Likewise, such
casual accents might be placed by using a capital letter in the
middle of the word, or italics (skewed letter)...

Other than that, diacritics are a nuisance of other languages for us,
funny to look at and tedious to learn, which modern English luckily
avoids - and see how it dominates the world today.

//Jim