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From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: string and wide string usage
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 03:05:53 +0100
Date: 2013-03-08T03:05:53+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.wtlur3cnule2fv@cardamome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: khb99p$98h$1@munin.nbi.dk

Le Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:53:25 +0100, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com>  
a écrit:
> But I want to caution you that "converting to lower case" is not a great
> idea if you plan to support arbitrary Unicode strings. Such conversions  
> are
> somewhat ambiguous, and tend to make strings appear similar that are
> different (and sometimes the reverse happens as well).

If I'm not wrong, that's the reverse, the conversion to upper‑case which  
is the one with which you may loose the more.


-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-07 11:12 string and wide string usage Ali Bendriss
2013-03-07 14:20 ` ytomino
2013-03-07 17:14   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-07 23:53   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-08  2:05     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2013-03-08  3:07       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-07 17:48 ` Vadim Godunko
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