On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, David Brownell wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007, Alan Stern wrote: > > > "full handling of Unicode"? You must be kidding. Do you have any idea > > how difficult it is to do something as simple as converting between > > lower- and uppercase? > > Case conversion is another one of those conceptual bugs. It's not > even a meaningful concept in a lot of cases. So even attempting it ----------------------------------------^ Inadvertent pun?
> indicates someone needs to ship a cluestick via FedEx, pronto! But it is meaningful in some cases. The difficulty lies partly in deciding when it is or is not meaningful and partly in figuring out the character code correspondence. On the other hand, it's questionable whether the kernel should need this ability in any case. We don't do a lot of fancy string manipulation. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
