Message93260
Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
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> Regarding the apostrophe: the Unicode standard doesn't appear to
> include any rule regarding that character and its use in titles
> or upper-case versions of text. The apostrophe itself is a
> non-cased code point.
>
> It's likely that the special use of the apostrophe in English
> is actually a language-specific use case. For those, it's (currently)
> better to implement your own versions of the conversion functions,
> based on the existing methods.
Looking at the many different uses in various languages, this
appears to be the better option:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe
To make things even more complicated, the usual typewriter apostrophe
that you find in ASCII is not the only one in Unicode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Unicode |
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2009-09-29 08:37:15 | lemburg | set | recipients:
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2009-09-29 08:37:13 | lemburg | link | issue7008 messages |
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