"Christopher R. Maden" <[email protected]> writes: > On 11/18/2012 05:26 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> At the current point of time, the rule is that "alphabetic" is a-z, >> A-Z, and _any_ non-ASCII character. This is a bit excessive, but >> short of a reliable "is a letter" test, this was easiest to >> implement. > > Getting off-topic for -user, but... Most programming languages that > can process Unicode text have class tests that should simplify > letter-ness. (The superscript characters ¹²³ etc. do not have this > property.) Guile has the char-alphabetic? predicate; see <URL: > https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Characters.html >, > at least as of 2.0.
We are not using Guile 2.0 yet, and I doubt people would be happy about an undiscussed change once we do. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
