From: yvon.thoravallist@... (Yvon Thoraval)
Date: 2003-09-24T22:59:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] upper to lower first letter of a word

Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:

> I'd omit the "\b" at the beginning since "�" then still matches a word
> boundry:
> 
> l.gsub!(/[a-z������������������]+/) { |w| black_list.include?(w) ? w
> : w.capitalize }

yes, fine, i discovered also that capitalization don't work on
accentuated chars (as �)

then i've done another step for those "special" chars being as the first
letter of a xord
> Alternatively:
> 
> l.gsub!(/[^\s!?.;:-]+/) {|w| black_list.include?(w) ? w : w.capitalize }

ok, however in my list no punctuation as ?!;:... only " " and "-"
-- 
Yvon