Question to French people about '‘uvres' and 'Oeuvres'

[Robert Brenstein]

On 26.10.2012 at 22:39 Uhr +0300 Ruslan Zasukhin apparently wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>I did work on this bug report
>     http://www.valentina-db.com/bt/view.php?id=5780
>
>And finally come to understanding that issues comes from very special case:
>   these two French words  '‘uvres'  and 'Oeuvres'
>
>Are the same.  ICU collators says they are equal.
>
>But they have different length. 6 and 7 chars.
>So our guess in code that we can compare at first lengths was wrong.

There are more such things in various languages not only French

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature

Many language handling programs also recognize that ü = ue for example.

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