[#35446] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #4477][Open] Kernel:exec and backtick (`) don't work for certain system commands — Joachim Wuttke <j.wuttke@...>

10 messages 2011/03/07

[#35476] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #4489][Open] [PATCH] Encodings with /-(unix|dos|mac)\Z/ — "James M. Lawrence" <quixoticsycophant@...>

20 messages 2011/03/10

[#35552] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4523][Open] Kernel#require to return the path of the loaded file — Alex Young <alex@...>

14 messages 2011/03/24

[#35565] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4531][Open] [PATCH 0/7] use poll() instead of select() in certain cases — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>

33 messages 2011/03/28

[#35566] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4532][Open] [PATCH] add IO#pread and IO#pwrite methods — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>

12 messages 2011/03/28

[#35586] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4538][Open] [PATCH (cleanup)] avoid unnecessary select() calls before doing I/O — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>

9 messages 2011/03/29

[ruby-core:35549] Re: [Feature #2350](Rejected) Unicode specific functionality on String in 1.9

From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2011-03-24 14:03:13 UTC
List: ruby-core #35549
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 18:30, Cezary <cezary.baginski@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:52:27PM +0900, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

>> My point is that the current #upcase (and similar methods) is
>> basically useless for anything other than ASCII.

> I would probably go one step further and disallow upcase and friends
> for any non-US-ASCII string for this reason. At least issue a warning.

For Unicode there actually are well-defined casing rules.

> For example, in German, you may want a more meaningful 'to_noun'
> instead of 'capitalize'. For Japanese some may want upcase as a no-op
> and some as a hack to convert to katakana. For case insensitivity,
> probably a "normalize" method would be more descriptive.

This is perhaps true, but beside the point.

> Out of curiosity: in what specific case is utf upcase necessary?

That=E2=80=99s a good question.  It=E2=80=99s perhaps not a common operatio=
n, but text
editors and regular expression engines most likely need it.  Even if
their utility is limited, returning incorrect results is worse.

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