Twitter hash tags and UTF8

Posted by heroic on Sunday June 10, 2012 @09:42AM
from the self-post dept.

Interesting. As far as Twitter is concerned, hashtag #ą is the same as #a And #ö is the same as #oe But #ć is not #c And #ź is not #z

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Re:Twitter hash tags and UTF8 by wxl on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:32PM (#4093112)

I was about to say it may have something to do with the fact that they're separate letters in other languages, like in Polish ą is a different letter, as are ć and ź. It may have something to do, though, with the fact that the ą sounds very similar to a, but ć and ź sound much different from c and z. (I'm only speaking from my very limited knowledge of Polish, I'm not sure about other languages.)

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Re:Twitter hash tags and UTF8 by adamzochowski on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @12:47AM (#4104364)

>> the ą sounds very similar to a

Nope, ą is more similar to 'o' than 'a', and this is seen very often in how kids write words like 'mówią' as 'mówio'

From wikipedia:

Originally ą was a nasal a but in modern times the pronunciation of this vowel has shifted to a nasal o sound. It is most commonly pronounced as /ɔw̃/, /ɔn/, /ɔm/.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%84

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