> Trivia:
>
> Reading through various documentation, my own language, German, has
> several pitfalls I was not aware of. Converting the word
> "measurments"
> in German from lower to upper case is a problem: Maße -> MASSE .
> Ooops, the new string is one character longer (but 1 byte shorter in
> utf8, btw.)! Now, converting back to lower case is close to
> impossible, because even though "Masse" is a valid German word, only
> it means something entirely different ("mass") than "Maße". The
> tolower() function would have to understand the entire context in
> which the word is used.
>
> In conclusion: no need to look to the far east for impossible
> unicode
> string handling. It's right here.
Yup - that does look insolvably complex.
Maybe we need a version of tolower that returns a list of possible
transformations, then the user could click through them until they find the one
they like... ;-)
Sometimes I'm glad I have English as my first language...
--
Ian
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