From: Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T16:24:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:grzm@seespotcode.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:08 AM
> On Jun 14, 2006, at 15:56 , Victor Shepelev wrote:
> 
> > As mentioned in this topic, it's String#length, upcase, downcase,
> > capitalize.
> 
> Just to chime in, aren't upcase, downcase, and capitalize a locale/
> localization issue rather than a Unicode-only issue per se? For
> example, different languages will have different rules for
> capitalization. 

Really? I know about two cases: European capitalization and no
capitalization.

But, really, you maybe right. I suppose, Florian Gross can say something
about German-specific capitalization issues.
 
> Granted, proper support for upcase, downcase, and capitalize is
> important, but I think it's a separate issue, part of m17n as a whole
> rather than support for Unicode in particular.

Maybe. Generally, sometimes I want Unicode, and sometimes (for "quick dirty"
scripts) I'll prefer capitalization and regexps "just work" with
Windows-1251 (one-byte Russian encoding).

V.