Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > Martin, do you think that str.title() should follow the Unicode standard?
I don't think that "follow the Unicode standard" has any meaning in this context: the Unicode standard doesn't specify (AFAIK) what a .title() method in a programming language should do. > Should string methods work with all the normalizations or just with NFC? When we know what .title() should do, it should do so correctly for all strings. I try to propose a definition for .title() "Split S into words. Change the first letter in a word to upper-case, and all subsequent letters to lower case. A word is a sequence that starts with a letter, followed by letter-related characters." Letters are all characters from the "Alphabetic" category, i.e. Lu+Ll+Lt+Lm+Lo+Nl + Other_Alphabetic. "letter-related" characters are letters + marks (Mn, Mc, Me). ---------- title: str.title() is overzealous by upcasing combining marks inappropriately -> str.title() is overzealous by upcasing combining marks inappropriately _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12737> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
