Disable GC entirely

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-04-08 10:15, Manu wrote:

> ... I don't think that's actually true. Can you suggest such a character
> in any language? I think they take that sort of thing into careful
> consideration when designing the codepoints for a character set.
> But if that is the case, then a function called toUpperInPlace is flawed
> by design, because it would be incapable of doing what it says it does.
> I'm not convinced that's true though.

The German double "s" (ß) in uppercase form should be "SS". That 
consists of two characters. There's also something similar with the 
Turkic "I" with a dot.

Here's the full list of special casings:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/SpecialCasing.txt

You should also read this:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/kcppa1$30b9$1@digitalmars.com

Shows some nasty corner cases with Unicode.

Short summary: encodings are PITA.

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/Jacob Carlborg