isUpperCase(), anyone?

[Ken Ray]

This sounds like a bug; you should log it in Bugzilla so the RunRev team
can fix it.

http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/bugdatabase/

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Kjetil R Hauge
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 5:48 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: isUpperCase(), anyone?
> 
> 
> Is there any way to do a simple Unicode-compliant check of whether a 
> character is uppercase? I figured that this would do it:
> 
> function isUpper x
>        set the useUnicode to true
>         --must be uppercase if the lowercased x is not equal 
> to the original x:
>          return charToNum(x) <>charToNum(toLower(x))
> end isUpper
> 
> - but the problem seems to be in the toLower (and toUpper) functions. 
> The documentation says:
> 
> toLower("NO, MAANA!") -- returns "no, maana!"
> 
> but both in 2.02  and 2.1b2 (Mac OS X), it returns "no, maana!" . 
> Even Microsoft Word with its poor Unicode support can do ChangeCase 
> with Cyrillic and CE, so it should be possible.
> 
> CharToNum() works fine with Unicode, so I suppose I could check if it 
> returns a number corresponding to an uppercase glyph (I don't need 
> conversion, only detection), but as these partly come in ranges, 
> partly in pairs with lowercase, it is not an appealing option.
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