[issue4971] Incorrect title case

[Matthew Barnett]

New submission from Matthew Barnett <python at mrabarnett.plus.com>:

I've found that the following 4 Unicode characters/codepoints don't
behave as I'd expect: Dž (U+01C5), Lj (U+01C8), Nj (U+01CB), Dz (U+01F2).

For example, u'\u01C5'.istitle() returns True and
unicodedata.category(u'\u01C5') returns 'Lt', but u'\u01C5'.title()
returns u'\u01C4' (DŽ), which is the uppercase equivalent.

I believe that these 4 codepoints are the only ones where the titlecase
differs from uppercase.

I thought it might be a mistake in the Unicode database. However John
Machin says:

Doesn't look like it. AFAICT it's a mistake in Objects/unicodetype.c,
function _PyUnicode_ToTitlecase.

See
http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Objects/unicodectype.c?rev=66362&view=markup

The code that says:
    if (ctype->title)
        delta = ctype->title;
    else
	delta = ctype->upper;
should IMHO merely be:
    delta = ctype->title;

A value of zero for ctype->title should be interpreted simply as the
offset to add to the ordinal, as it is in the sibling _PyUnicode_To
(Upper|Lower)case functions. See also Tools/unicode/makeunicodedata.py
which treats upper, lower and title identically when preparing the
tables used by those 3 functions.

AFAICT making that change will fix the problem for those four
characters and not ruin any others.

The error that you noticed occurs as far back as I've looked (2.1) and
also occurs in 3.0.

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components: Unicode
messages: 80020
nosy: mrabarnett
severity: normal
status: open
title: Incorrect title case
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1

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