Hi Fraser
Thanks for the prompt reply.
On 6 May 2014, at 17:29, Fraser Gordon wrote:
> The uppercasing and lowercasing behaviour provided by the LiveCode engine is
> language-neutral (read: wrong for some languages). Internationalisation and
> localisation are areas that we are aware of but 7.0 does not include any way
> to change the locale for string processing operations.
Did you forget to type the "yet" at the end of the sentence ;-)
> Other oddities that people might encounter is that the toupper of "ß"
> (sharp-S) is itself and not the expected "SS" - some scripts became a little
> confused when changing the case of a string also changed its length.
>
> Regards,
> Fraser
After your mail I did check that 7.0 correctly handles the "banana skin"
lower-to-upper codepoint - 0xFB04 - my simple test passes:
startTest "Unicode3"
put "ba" & numToCodepoint(0xFB04) & "e" into tUnicodeString
assertEqual "BAFFLE", the Upper of tUnicodeString
endTest
So it's only Language(Locale) specific case shifting that LiveCode 7.0 can't
handle at the moment.
Regards
Peter
PS I was truly impressed to find that comparing pre-composed and decomposed
characters worked without the need for the strings to be normalised. For
example, this test passes:
startTest "Unicode1"
put numToCodepoint(0xE7) into tPrecomposed
put "c" & numToCodepoint(0x0327) into tDecomposed
assertEqual tPrecomposed, tDecomposed
endTest
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