Re: Titlecase mappings for GREEK SYMBOLs

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Feb 04 1998 - 05:27:28 EST

Ar 09:45 -0800 1998-02-03, scríobh John Cowan:
>In UnicodeData 2.0.14, the following characters have an Uppercase
>mapping but no Titlecase mapping:
>
> U+03D0 GREEK BETA SYMBOL
> U+03D1 GREEK THETA SYMBOL
> U+03D5 GREEK PHI SYMBOL
> U+03D6 GREEK PI SYMBOL
> U+03F0 GREEK KAPPA SYMBOL
> U+03F1 GREEK RHO SYMBOL
>
>Taken literally, this means that when uppercasing, these characters are
>mapped to the corresponding ordinary GREEK CAPITAL LETTERs, but
>when titlecasing, they are left alone. Is this correct, or
>just an oversight?

I always thought that these were SYMBOLS, not LETTERS, in which case they
are autonomous and don't participate in casing operations. 

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