Re: Bug in capitalize ... ?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 53489
interpreted = N
texte = I think that Brian has hit on the idea of delimiters as this discussion=20= seems to come up from time to time. With delimiters we could overcome the problems of O'Connor and=20 McDonnald etc On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 02:02 AM, Brian Fries wrote: > HTML entities won't help Ken's problem... > > [capitalize]peña[/capitalize] > > shows up as Pe=D1A, as the "n" in ñ gets capitalized, resulting=20= > in Ñ > > The fix would be for WebDNA to support a delimiters param to=20 > [capitalize]. > > In the meantime, you could play with listwords, specifying the=20 > delimiter, then capitalizing only the first character. > > - brian > > On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 07:04 AM, John Peacock wrote: > >> Kenneth Grome wrote: >> >>> Why does webdna make the letter 'a' uppercase when I put a=20 >>> [capitalize] context around this word? >>> Pe=F1A >>> The =F1 is definitely not the last letter in the word, which means=20= >>> [capitalize] should make it lowercase, not uppercase. >> >> Letters in Latin-1 are limited to a-zA-Z. "=F1" is an extended ASCII=20= >> character in the Latin-1 character set, and hence fouls up the logic=20= >> of [capitalize]. It is a bug only in the sense that it doesn't do=20 >> what _you_ expected it to do. It is not a bug in the sense that=20 >> anyone who expects extended ASCII characters to be handled=20 >> consistently by all browsers is going to be massively mistaken. >> >> Don't use extended ASCII; always use HTML entities (in this case=20 >> ñ). >> >> John >> >> --=20 >> John Peacock >> > -- Brian Fries, BrainScan Software --=20 > http://www.brainscansoftware.com -- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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I think that Brian has hit on the idea of delimiters as this discussion=20= seems to come up from time to time. With delimiters we could overcome the problems of O'Connor and=20 McDonnald etc On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 02:02 AM, Brian Fries wrote: > HTML entities won't help Ken's problem... > > [capitalize]peña[/capitalize] > > shows up as Pe=D1A, as the "n" in ñ gets capitalized, resulting=20= > in Ñ > > The fix would be for WebDNA to support a delimiters param to=20 > [capitalize]. > > In the meantime, you could play with listwords, specifying the=20 > delimiter, then capitalizing only the first character. > > - brian > > On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 07:04 AM, John Peacock wrote: > >> Kenneth Grome wrote: >> >>> Why does webdna make the letter 'a' uppercase when I put a=20 >>> [capitalize] context around this word? >>> Pe=F1A >>> The =F1 is definitely not the last letter in the word, which means=20= >>> [capitalize] should make it lowercase, not uppercase. >> >> Letters in Latin-1 are limited to a-zA-Z. "=F1" is an extended ASCII=20= >> character in the Latin-1 character set, and hence fouls up the logic=20= >> of [capitalize]. It is a bug only in the sense that it doesn't do=20 >> what _you_ expected it to do. It is not a bug in the sense that=20 >> anyone who expects extended ASCII characters to be handled=20 >> consistently by all browsers is going to be massively mistaken. >> >> Don't use extended ASCII; always use HTML entities (in this case=20 >> ñ). >> >> John >> >> --=20 >> John Peacock >> > -- Brian Fries, BrainScan Software --=20 > http://www.brainscansoftware.com -- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to=20 > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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