From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: upcase-word, &c. for non-latin alphabets Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 05:45:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83vbuh52dm.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397097973 19226 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2014 02:46:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:46:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 10 04:46:02 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 1WY504-0001EX-DQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:46:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48745 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WY503-0000nY-MM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 22:45:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WY4zS-0000Bf-E0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 22:45:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WY4zK-00066T-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 22:45:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:51472) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WY4zJ-00066M-Pf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 22:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N3S00E00N6EJG00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 05:44:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N3S006RCNMB5Q70@mtaout28.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 05:44:35 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:97082 Archived-At: > From: Will Parsons > 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.