Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: >> As for terminology: I think the documentation should continue to >> speak about "words" and "letters", and then define what is meant >> in this context. It's not that the Unicode consortium invented >> the term "letter", so we should use it more liberally than just >> referring to the L* categories. > > I really don't think it wise to have private definitions of these. > > If Letter doesn't mean L?, things get too weird. That's why > there are separate definitions of alphabetic, word, etc.
But I won't be using the word "Letter", but "letter" (lower case). Nobody will assume that this refers to the Unicode standard; people would rather expect that this is [A-Za-z] (i.e. not expect non-ASCII characters to be considered at all). So elaboration is necessary, anyway. I take the risk of confusing the 10 people that ever read UTS#18 :-) ---------- title: str.title() is overzealous by upcasing combining marks inappropriately -> str.title() is overzealous by upcasing combining marks inappropriately _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12737> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
