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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 05:45:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vbuh52dm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnlkbq00.1h5.varro@anukis.local>

> From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
> Date: 10 Apr 2014 00:38:24 GMT
> 
> > Just use M-u, M-l, and M-c.  Emacs already knows about all the
> > alphabets it supports (which is all of the Unicode).
> 
> I thought I tried it and it didn't work, but on retrying, I see that
> is does work, partially.  I.e., some letters change case, but not
> others.  The alphabet I'm working with is fairly exotic, viz. Coptic,
> so I'm not supprised there are problems (in fact I'm surprised it
> works even partially), so perhaps this qualifies as a bug?

Yes, please report the problems with "M-x report-emacs-bug RET".

> I'm curious though, since upcase-word &al. are built-in, does that
> mean that that the base Emacs code contains enormous correspondance
> tables for the large number of Unicode code blocks that must exist?

Yes.



      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-10  2:45 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
     [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 [this message]

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