On 3/27/07, Rich Felker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is not a simple task at all, and in fact it's a task that a
computer should (almost) never do...

Of course. Why shouldn't an editor go through and change 257 headings
to titlecase by hand? Humans are known for their abilities to do such
tedious
things without error, aren't they?

The whole idea of case conversion in programming languages is
digustingly euro-centric. The rest of the world doesn't have such a
stupid thing as case...

Really? Funny, I'm from North America, and we have a concept of case
here. 90% of the languages native to the continent are written in a
script that has a concept of case. In fact, I think you'd find that
most of the world's languages are written in scripts that have a
concept of case. Furthermore, the whole reason for Unicode is because
you have to accomadate every single script's idiosyncracities; you
have to include case conversion because certain scripts demand it.

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