Re: How to do case conversion?

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Eachus said


"    The multilingual problems can arise either due to use of say
Latin2, or be more subtle.  For instance, the correct upper/lower case
mapping for e-acute in French is locale specific."

What on earth do you mean by this last phrase. The upper case in French
for lower case e-acute is upper case e-acute.

Now it is true that if you want to emulate the output if technically
incompetent typewriters that have no upper case E acute, then you may
want to print out the upper case E acute as an ordinary E, but that's
a different issue from the casing issue.

Besides this seems unlikely, If you print out upper case E acute, then
either the output device you are speaking to is capable of proper French
output and has this character, or it is a decrepit device lacking this
character, in which case you would expect upper case E acute to print
as upper case E anyway.

P.S. there is a common myth, particularly in France, that French does not
permit accents on upper case letters. This is incorrect, it derives from
the fact that early typewriters were incapable of proper accent output
for upper case letters.