On 2014-01-11 07:50:54 +0000, "Brad Anderson" <e...@gnuk.net> said:
1. They have case-insensitive versions of pretty much everything. It's not hard to do a map!toLower/toUpper in D but it's also not obvious (nor do I know if that's actually correct in languages outside of english).
Uppercase, lowercase, and case-insensitive comparison is locale-dependent for Unicode. In the general case you can't just compare the lowercase/uppercase versions. For instance, look at the Turkish i/İ and ı/I (dot-less i), or the German ß/SS ss/SS pairs. Also, if you're sorting in alphabetical order you probably want to do something special with diacritics.
The correct way to to this is to implement the Unicode Collation Algorithm: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/ -- Michel Fortin michel.for...@michelf.ca http://michelf.ca
