Re: Question on title and explanation of shuffles -- letter/alphabet

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 06:28:58PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Oops, I forgot the attachment on my last message, so I'll confuse
> things by adding it to this one.
> -The version comparison rule can be summarized as the following.
> +The version comparison rule can be summarized as:
>  </para>
>  <itemizedlist>
> -<listitem><para>The strings are compared from the head to the tail.</para></listitem>
> -<listitem><para>Alphabets are larger than numbers.</para></listitem>
> -<listitem><para>Numbers are compared as the integer.</para></listitem>
> -<listitem><para>Alphabets are compared in the ASCII code order.</para></listitem>
> -<listitem><para>There are some special rules for periods (<literal>.</literal>), plus (<literal>+</literal>) and tildes (<literal>~</literal>) as the followings.</para>
> +<listitem><para>Strings are compared from the head to the tail.</para></listitem>
> +<listitem><para>Letters are larger than digits.</para></listitem>
> +<listitem><para>Numbers are compared as integers.</para></listitem>
> +<listitem><para>Letters are compared in ASCII code order.</para></listitem>
> +<listitem><para>There are special rules for period
> +(<literal>.</literal>), plus (<literal>+</literal>), and tilde
> +(<literal>~</literal>) characters, as follows.</para>

I did not realize you changed from /Alphabets/ to /Letters/.
(In Japanese translation, "English letters" will be used here.)

This is good since we have "lower case letters" elsewhere.

I used "alphabet" since we had alphanumerics elsewhere. I was not sure letters
include period etc.  I also thought, alphabets usualy are exclusive to [a-ZA-Z].

I am wondering if I should make this tutorial easier and consistent by removing
2 usages of "alphanumerics" along with your proposed change.

|-  at least two characters long, must start with an alphanumeric character, and
|+  at least two characters long, must start with an letter or number character, and

|-  alphanumerics (<literal>0-9A-Za-z</literal>), plus (<literal>+</literal>),
|+  letters (<literal>A-Za-z</literal>), numbers (<literal>0-9</literal>), plus (<literal>+</literal>),

This makes a bit drift from Policy text ... though ....

Osamu