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List:       icu
Subject:    Re: Problem: u_strToUpper - & u_strToLower convertion
From:       Tex Texin <tex () i18nguy ! com>
Date:       2004-04-09 19:10:44
Message-ID: 4076F534.660F6D9F () i18nguy ! com
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Yes, it describes what it does, however that is not a warning.
For people less experienced in i18n, it may not be clear that it is a bad thing
to do.

It would be better to say clearly- Don't use these.

tex

Markus Scherer wrote:
> 
> Tex Texin wrote:
> > Perhaps the doc should provide a strong(er) warning about the use of an API
> > that is driven by
> > a constraint of single character length buffer being inadequate.
> >
> > Many programmers may read the doc and think that the buffer-size constraint is
> > an adequate justification for using the API, as opposed to properly
> > internationalizing their code.
> 
> Possible. I thought that the current doc for u_toupper() was reasonably clear:
> 
>   * This function only returns the simple, single-code point case mapping.
>   * Full case mappings may result in zero, one or more code points and depend
>   * on context or language etc.
>   * Full case mappings are applied by the string case mapping functions,
>   * see ustring.h and the UnicodeString class.
> 
> Is it not?
> 
> markus
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