Unicode

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Tue May 5 19:53:57 EDT 2015


Right, this is where I get confused on the issue of whether there are
uppercase equivalents of all lowercase glyphs in all languages.  The link
you provided sheds light on this


Pete
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On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Peter W A Wood <peterwawood at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Are you sure that the two Greek words are actually the same? I don’t know
> Greek but from a quick scan of the Unicode docs, it seems that not all
> Greek letters have an uppercase equivalent. Google translate cannot find a
> Greek translation of PETER other than PETER which is clearly not equal to
> Google's lower case translation Πέτρος whatever caseSensitive is set to.
>
> The Unicode Case Mapping FAQ’s may help to determine if the characters you
> used are actually the same character -
> http://unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
>
> > On 6 May 2015, at 03:25, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> >
> > I tried pasting from Google translate using my first name in lower and
> > upper case, but I still get false,false.
> >
> > The variable seems to be OSX vs Windows.
> >
> > Maybe someone from RunRev will chime in on this.  If not, I'll probably
> > enter a QCC report and see what they have to say.
> >
> > Pete
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> > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/5/2015 1:52 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> >>> Interesting.  I wonder why my results are different.  I'm using LC
> 7.0.4
> >>> and Yosemite. and get false,false no matter what caseSensitive is set
> to.
> >>>
> >>> If I use US keyboard, everything works as expected.  It's only when
> >> keying
> >>> in Greek characters that I always get false,false.
> >>
> >> I repeated the test where I pasted Greek (Γεια σας copied from Google
> >> Translate) into the fields and the script behaves as expected, so it may
> >> be a keyboard issue (seems weird)? Try pasting vs typing and see if that
> >> also works for you.
> >>
> >> My tests were all under Windows 8.1 US English with US keyboard
> >>
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