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RE: Capitalizing content of a variable
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Capitalizing content of a variable
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:42:13 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> I have to say that it is surprisingly hard to get comprehensive,
> precisely worded standards for localised, language dependend string
> processing. The Unicode Standard goes a long way to provide
> definitions
> of categories to think in, but such stuff as what is applicable
> for a certain language such as character set, concepts of character
> case, case transformations, collation rules and the like appears to
> be spread across a lot of paper.
And when you do find rules written down for things like collating sequences,
you only need to pick up a dictionary, gazetteer, or phone book, to find
that no-one follows the rules anyway. I'm very sceptical of all "standards"
in this area.
Mike Kay
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