From: Stefan Schmidt <Stefan.Schmidt@...>
Date: 2008-07-10T10:17:24+09:00
Subject: Re: String#upcase/downcase with UTF-8 strings in Ruby 1.9

> The document for String#upcase says:

Yes, sorry, I should have read the documentation

> See "Note:".  Tim Bray have persuaded me to do so, since case
> conversion outside of ASCII region is highly dependent on country,
> language, culture and script.

So basically the Python guys are going down a wrong route ?

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import string
print string.upper(u"aoue����")
print string.lower(u"AOUE����")

works as expected.

Cheers, Stefan