On 30/11/2013 02:08, Roy Smith wrote:
In article <529934dc$0$29993$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
(8) What's the uppercase of "baffle" spelled with an ffl ligature?
Like most other languages, Python 3.2 fails:
py> 'baffle'.upper()
'BAfflE'
but Python 3.3 passes:
py> 'baffle'.upper()
'BAFFLE'
I disagree.
The whole idea of ligatures like fi is purely typographic. The crossbar
on the "f" (at least in some fonts) runs into the dot on the "i".
Likewise, the top curl on an "f" run into the serif on top of the "l"
(and similarly for ffl).
There is no such thing as a "FFL" ligature, because the upper case
letterforms don't run into each other like the lower case ones do.
Thus, I would argue that it's wrong to say that calling upper() on an
ffl ligature should yield FFL.
I would certainly expect, x.lower() == x.upper().lower(), to be True for
all values of x over the set of valid unicode codepoints. Having
u"\uFB04".upper() ==> "FFL" breaks that. I would also expect len(x) ==
len(x.upper()) to be True.
http://bugs.python.org/issue19819 talks about these beasties. Please
don't come back to me as I haven't got a clue!!!
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