Python Unicode handling wins again -- mostly
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Fri Nov 29 21:28:47 EST 2013
In article <mailman.3417.1385777557.18130.python-list at python.org>,
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> > I would certainly expect, x.lower() == x.upper().lower(), to be True for
> > all values of x over the set of valid unicode codepoints. Having
> > u"\uFB04".upper() ==> "FFL" breaks that. I would also expect len(x) ==
> > len(x.upper()) to be True.
>
> That's a nice theory, but the Unicode consortium disagrees with you on
> both points.
>
> ChrisA
Harumph.
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