Michael,
Remember that in general, casing operations are never reversible. For example,
upper(lower("Mark Davis")) = "MARK DAVIS"
lower(upper("Mark Davis")) = "mark davis".
There are even single words like "vederLa" in Italian, which are neither upper,
lower, or titlecase.
However, suppose you want to do it. Just don't map any character C to D if D
does not have the corresponding mapping back to C in the Unicode Character
Database.
Pseudocode example of uppercasing:
for (i = 0; i < sourcelength; ++i) {
char c = source[i];
String d = upper(c);
if (d != c && lower(d) == c) destination.append(d);
else destination.append(c);
}
Of course, this means that <omicron><final sigma> uppercases to <OMICRON><final
sigma>, which is wrong; but you get what you ask for.
Mark
Michael Everson scribbled:
> Ar 09:13 -0700 1998-07-16, scríobh Kenneth Whistler:
>
> >Case-mappings between characters have a few well-known, culturally-specific
> >preferences that must be accounted for. But case-mappings are *relations*
> >between pairs (or triplets) of characters, and not character properties
> >per se.
>
> >> Does anyone has a good example of how to handle correctly the german
> >> LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (00DF)
> >> 'to uppercase' conversion , which sould give two letters : "SS" ?
> >
> >Mark Davis pointed at the Unicode Standard for the full answer.
> >
> >The short answer is that the Unicode Character Database (and you
> >should be using Version 2.1.2 now) gives all the default one-to-one
> >case mappings. Some case mappings (e.g., for French and for Turkish)
> >differ from the defaults.
>
> French?
>
> >And U+00DF for German has the uppercase "SS",
> >but "SS" does not generally lowercase to U+00DF (unless you do
> >context analysis on the data).
>
> Which is especially unreliable now that the German High Court has approved
> the spelling reform.
>
> How do you do reversible conversions from lowercase to uppercase and back,
> though? Or is that "outside the scope" of coding in your view?
>
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