[seqfan] Re: Spelling corrections.

Max Alekseyev maxale at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 16:59:49 CET 2013


This raises a number of questions:
Should not OEIS be restricted to ASCII character set?
If not restricted to ASCII, are any UTF8 characters are allowed (e.g.,
Chinese hieroglyphs, Russian cyrillics etc.)?
If not any, when what characters besides standard ASCII are allowed?

Regards,
Max

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks as if searching in the OEIS for
> ménage and searching for menage
> get the same 28 hits.
>
> So, Ed, go ahead and make that change (very carefully,
> of course!)
>
> Neil
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Ron Hardin <rhhardin at att.net> wrote:
>
>> I'd say make sure that search finds menage if entered without the
>> diacritical mark first.
>>
>>
>>
>> rhhardin at mindspring.com
>> rhhardin at att.net (either)
>>
>>
>>
>> >________________________________
>> > From: Alonso Del Arte <alonso.delarte at gmail.com>
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>> >Subject: [seqfan] Re: Spelling corrections.
>> >
>> >
>> >I would think so, especially now that your edit to the top such result has
>> >been approved. But I would still ask and wait for the go-ahead from an EiC
>> >before undertaking thirty such changes.
>> >
>> >Excluding the literature in French, how are the terms "ménage numbers" and
>> >"ménage hit polynomials" usually written?
>> >
>> >Al
>> >
>> >
>> >On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:00 PM, L. Edson Jeffery <lejeffery2 at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Am I allowed to correct spelling in all of about thirty OEIS sequences
>> by
>> >> changing "menage" to "ménage" especially where it appears in the %N
>> line? I
>> >> did not want to do this without asking for permission first.
>> >>
>> >> Ed Jeffery
>> >>
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