On 22 May 2017 at 06:56, Duncan Jones <dun...@wortharead.com> wrote: > >> On 21 May 2017, at 19:43, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Pardon the obvious but what is missing from methods like >> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html#isLowerCase(char) >> >> Gary > > > The WordUtils methods turn sentences into title case, which Java’s core > libraries don’t offer. In fact, the core libraries make doing > locale-sensitive title case conversions very difficult (see > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7360996/unicode-correct-title-case-in-java > for example). > > Doing title casing correctly is quite a subtle art. We don’t even do it > correctly for English at the moment, which would normally capitalise “The > Life of Reilly” rather than “The Life Of Reilly”. Other languages have > completely different conventions or additional complexities. >
However the Javadoc does state that the capitalisation is based on words, not sentences. So I don't know if there is any expectation that it will take account of the meaning of the words. I guess the question is whether that is useful at all? If so, we should clarify that the processing takes no account of the meaning of the words. If not, we should perhaps drop the methods. I think it will be a huge effort to produce anything that works properly even for US English, let alone UK English. Names will be a particular problem: ee cummings, D'Ath, O'Toole, MacDonald --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
