nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (07/19/88)
How do non-english-speakers initialize downcase_table, given the assumption in search.c that A-Z and a-z are the only letters? -- nelson@clutx.bitnet, nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu, uunet!clutx.clarkson.edu!nelson
cjh@hpausla.HP.COM (Clifford Heath) (07/26/88)
> How do non-english-speakers initialize downcase_table, given the > assumption in search.c that A-Z and a-z are the only letters? It depends entirely on the character set and the language. HP generally uses the ROMAN8 character set for European languages, and it has associated case shift tables that are different for different languages. I.e. the obvious shift isn't always the correct one; French generally strips accents for upper case, unless it's Canadian French... etc. The emerging standard character set for European languages seems to be Latin1, which is ISO standard 8859/1. Grrr, once again HP is first, and yet fails to become the standard. We have a way of doing that :-( Clifford Heath, Hewlett Packard Australian Software Operation. (UUCP: hplabs!hpfcla!hpausla!cjh, ACSnet: cjh@hpausla.oz)