On Oct 4, 7:06 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No, that will uppercase the string, but it doesn't (and shouldn't) > >> strip the accents: > > > I can agree that is doesn't (though I am taking your word for it), but > > a French person will definitely feel it's doing the wrong thing. Upper > > case letters aren't accented in written French. > > I didn't know that, and I'm not sure I believe it: but then the French > tend to have conventions honoured more in the breach than the observance. I > just hit a few French websites, and the first one that I found which had > any capital letters that might be accented had four accented capital > letters on its front page (two capitalized words and two words in block > capitals).
The usual rationale for such treatment of accented characters is for fuzzy matching: if upshiftedunaccented(text1) == upshiftedunaccented(text2): -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
