std.string.toUpper() for greek characters

[Ali Çehreli]

On 10/03/2012 11:21 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
 > On 03-Oct-12 21:10, Ali Çehreli wrote:
 >> On 10/03/2012 03:56 AM, Minas wrote:
[...]
 >>> map['ά'] = 'Ά';
[...]
 > Glad you showed up!

Why? Do I whine better? :p

 > One and by far the most useful case is case-insensitive matching.
 > That being said this doesn't and shouldn't involve toLower/toUpper (and
 > on the whole string) anywhere. Not only it's multipass vs single pass
 > but it's also wrong. As a lot of other ASCII-minded carry-overs.

As I have written at other times, there is an experimental 
alphabet-aware string library (unfortunately even the code is in Turkish 
at this time).

That library has the following struct for order-comparing alphabet-aware 
strings and characters:

struct Order
{
     /**
      * Represents comparing characters at their bases.
      *
      * This value indicates that 'a' and 'b' are different. 'C' and 'c'
      * are the same according to this value. This value disregards upper
      * and lower cases.
      */
     int base;

     /**
      * Represents comparing characters by their accents.
      *
      * This value indicates that 'a' and 'â' are different. This value
      * disregards upper and lower cases.
      */
     int accent;

     /**
      * Represents comparing characters also by their upper and lower cases.
      *
      * Lower case letter comes before upper case.
      */
     int cased;
}

(Of course opCmp() cannot return that type. :( )

The idea is that only the application knows what type of comparison 
makes sense.

Ali