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it doesn't check character classes either. It literally takes two characters, then uppercases both and compares, then lowercases both and compares. I have no id

it doesn't check character classes either. It literally takes two characters, then uppercases both and compares, then lowercases both and compares. I have no idea where you are getting that it has anything to do with word or character classes, it doesn't.

kragen 4y ago
by 'word class' i meant 'a set of words that are considered equivalent by whatever your equivalency relation is' similarly for 'character class' cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_class what i thought the linked program did was that it counted how many of those there were now on looking at it further i can see that it doesn't seem to be doing that but i don't have any idea what it does do however, it definitely doesn't take into account the information you would need to learn anything about which candidate equivalency relation is better, which is something you'd need to examine at at least a word level, considering examples like größte, Σίσυφος, and the notoriously fatal sıkışınca/sikişinca pair
- svnpenn 4y ago
  > doesn't take into account the information you would need to learn anything about which candidate equivalency relation is better OK, no one said it did that. Its purely comparing characters, which is and always was what I said it was doing. And somehow it took 5 comments before you even decided to actually read the answer. Maybe next time you should start by actually reviewing and understanding what you are commenting on, before making multiple comments.
  - kragen 4y ago
    you cited it to support your proposition, 'in regards to accuracy, uppercase is the better option' i reviewed it sufficiently to see that it's irrelevant to the question of whether that's true or not, and to pull the actually right answer out of the thread, and quote it above
    - svnpenn 4y ago
      > you cited it to support your proposition, 'in regards to accuracy, uppercase is the better option' which is true > i reviewed it sufficiently good joke

kragen 4y ago

by 'word class' i meant 'a set of words that are considered equivalent by whatever your equivalency relation is' similarly for 'character class' cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_class what i thought the linked program did was that it counted how many of those there were now on looking at it further i can see that it doesn't seem to be doing that but i don't have any idea what it does do however, it definitely doesn't take into account the information you would need to learn anything about which candidate equivalency relation is better, which is something you'd need to examine at at least a word level, considering examples like größte, Σίσυφος, and the notoriously fatal sıkışınca/sikişinca pair

svnpenn 4y ago
> doesn't take into account the information you would need to learn anything about which candidate equivalency relation is better OK, no one said it did that. Its purely comparing characters, which is and always was what I said it was doing. And somehow it took 5 comments before you even decided to actually read the answer. Maybe next time you should start by actually reviewing and understanding what you are commenting on, before making multiple comments.
- kragen 4y ago
  you cited it to support your proposition, 'in regards to accuracy, uppercase is the better option' i reviewed it sufficiently to see that it's irrelevant to the question of whether that's true or not, and to pull the actually right answer out of the thread, and quote it above
  - svnpenn 4y ago
    > you cited it to support your proposition, 'in regards to accuracy, uppercase is the better option' which is true > i reviewed it sufficiently good joke