Subject: RE: [xsl] Capitalizing content of a variable From: Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:38:36 +0100 (BST) |
Joerg Pietschmann wrote at 9 Aug 2001 13:59:54 +0200: ... > But as you brought up the point: AFAIK both "MASSE" and "MASZE" are > valid uppercase versions for "Maße", because the former is Interesting. I don't recall seeing the "SZ" form before. ... > I have to say that it is surprisingly hard to get comprehensive, > precisely worded standards for localised, language dependend string > processing. The Unicode Standard goes a long way to provide definitions > of categories to think in, but such stuff as what is applicable > for a certain language such as character set, concepts of character > case, case transformations, collation rules and the like appears to The Unicode Standard provides case mappings in the UnicodeData.txt file for every version of Unicode and, for non 1:1 mappings, in SpecialCasing.txt. Character case is identified in UnicodeData.txt. The Unicode Collation Algorithm is specified in UTS #10. There's certainly no shortage of desire on the part of the Unicode Consortium to nail down every aspect of plain text processing with Unicode. ... > If you have some good sources, I'd be quite interested in hearing about > them. I have numerous books on writing systems and the like, but for the rules for Unicode text, I look to the Unicode Standard. Regards, Tony Graham ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tony Graham mailto:tony.graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd Phone: +353 1 8199708 Hamilton House, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3 x(70)19708 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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