On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operates is to take the range of bytes that correspond to us-ascii and perform a us-ascii uppercase on them. The remaining bytes are left alone.
I'd prefer parrot not to do that, on the basis that Perl 5 supports EBCDIC platforms, and I feel parrot should too, by being completely character encoding agnostic. [Well, maybe better described as "atheist" :-) ]
I think I'd agree. Besides, it also means that we'd mis-mangle Leo's name if we upcased a binary version of it and that just doesn't seem right.
I'll make mangling on binary data throw an optional exception and otherwise leave the string alone. And I'll also make sure we have at least a binary and ASCII charset checked in to start with. I might do Latin-1 as well if I'm feeling adventuresome and it's easy enough. (It's a good thing I don't have the Ora CJKV book easily at hand or I might take a shot at Shift-JIS and that'd blow a day or two... :)
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