From: Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-03-19T07:54:48+09:00
Subject: Re: downcase/uppercase for non-English characters

> As Turkish users we have same problems not only in windows-1254 also
> utf-8 and i think as a japanese user Matz have same problems also. 

Hmmm... It seems to me Japanese has no upper/downcases.

> I
> read a solution in a turkish forum may be u can use it. They says for
> unicode use jcode=u  and write your own regex for downcase/uppercase
> functions. So if yu do that inthe ruby code all libraries which use
> that function will use your function. 


Yes, I know how to use Unicode (but I don't want), and know how to write
custom upper/downcase via String.tr (and I've already wrote). What I can't
handle, is case-insensitive Regexp-matching :-\

> But this problem will be fixed in
> 2.0 version of Ruby.

Would hope, but can't wait :)

In any case, thanks for your help.

> Serbulent UNSAL

Victor.