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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: upcase-word, &c. for non-latin alphabets
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:26:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sipl435c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8WqiqAp-gB5EBT+2y5Mm6vcjrOTC19apm-EjK9rFfDJgg@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:55:40 +0700
> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Does it also do the right thing for the Turkic dotted and dotless I
> >> (which is about the only thing in Unicode that cannot be up/downcased
> >> without knowing the language)?
> >
> > No, Emacs doesn't yet support titlecase.
> 
> As far as I understand, titlecase is when you capitalize each word in
> a sentence (in English; in other languages rules differ). My question
> was not about that.
> 
> In Turkic languages (including but not limited to Turkish), the
> lowercase of ?I is not ?i but ?ı (U+0131 Latin small letter dotless
> i), and the uppercase of ?i is ?İ (U+0130 Latin capital letter I with
> dot above).

I understood the question.  It doesn't matter how you call this
feature, the answer is still NO.  Emacs doesn't support this yet (as
it doesn't support other case-folding variations, like Greek letters
at the end of a word, or the German ß whose upcase variant is SS).




  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-10 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-09 15:52 upcase-word, &c. for non-latin alphabets Will Parsons
2014-04-09 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-09 16:59   ` Yuri Khan
2014-04-09 17:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-10  2:55       ` Yuri Khan
2014-04-10 15:26         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.19307.1397061058.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-10  0:38   ` Will Parsons
2014-04-10  2:45     ` Eli Zaretskii

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