On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 09:51:53AM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: > >Iike how you map lower -> upper depends on how you encode characters. > > Then use a single UNICODE character set where every character has > both an upper and lower case representation. Problem solved.
Not possible - see below. > I don't give two hoots what javascript does. Many PHP programmers also write Javascript. Avoiding gratuitous inconsistencies will help them. > UNICODE was supposedly invented to deal with all these problems so > why doesn't it? Why is it not possible to define an uppercase and > lowercase variant of the same character? I don't think that you understand Unicode. Case mapping is not as simple as you seem to think - even in English. For a start there are 3 cases: lower, upper & title. It then gets more complicated. I suggest that you read: http://unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include <std_disclaimer.h> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
