From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: upcase-word, &c. for non-latin alphabets Date: 9 Apr 2014 15:52:04 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: gyliamos@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397058931 6213 80.91.229.3 (9 Apr 2014 15:55:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 15:55:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 09 17:55:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WXuqN-0002JF-7C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:55:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXuqM-0008CX-U5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:55:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Trace: individual.net GX3UlHBtV9rjcNriAMfRFwKtvywPfHIZU4lAy+ejinWZ1qAU8A Cancel-Lock: sha1:gVpeU57aFnNfmnClfXu4nugM4sk= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204800 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97069 Archived-At: I'd like to be able use the upcase/downcase/capitalize-word functions (or equivalents) for non-Latin alphabets (utf-8 encoding). Can anyone give me any hints on how to go about it? I assume that one step is to define the correlation between uppercase and lowercase letters somehow, but beyond that I don't have any idea. (Since the standard functions are built-in rather than elisp, I can't easily see how they do it.) -- Will