D on next-gen consoles and for game development

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 05/24/2013 11:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> toUpper/lower cannot be made in place if it should handle all Unicode. Some
> characters will change their length when convert to/from uppercase. Examples of
> these are the German double S and some Turkish I.

Surely it's possible to put in-place checks for whether the character length
changes, and ensure in-place replacement without any allocation if it doesn't.
(To be honest, feels a bit of a design flaw in Unicode that character length can
change between lower- and uppercase.)