Issue 1212195: str.lower() to have an IMPORTANT NOTE or it's for magicians (original) (raw)

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Created on 2005-05-31 18:56 by nkour, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg25450 - (view)	Author: Nikos Kouremenos (nkour)	Date: 2005-05-31 18:56
lower() {maybe others} should mention that if used with string object [not unicode object] it's likely the that encoding will change unde some locales [eg pl_PL makes it from utf8 to latin2]!! or this hsould be put in the beginning of the doc in str as a general WARNING/NOTE:
msg25451 - (view)	Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) *	Date: 2005-06-01 21:43
Logged In: YES user_id=80475 Mark, do you have any thoughts on this one?
msg25452 - (view)	Author: Marc-Andre Lemburg (lemburg) *	Date: 2005-06-02 11:48
Logged In: YES user_id=38388 A doc-patch would be nice. I don't like the general situation either. Unicode doesn't behave like this and I don't think string.lower() and .upper() should either, but there are users out there who think differently, so we might want to add a parameter which then allows modifying the type of mapping: string.lower(map='ascii') string.upper(map='latin-1') etc. Just an idea. PS: I'll be offline for two weeks now, so don't expect any more comments before then.
msg25453 - (view)	Author: Peter van Kampen (pterk)	Date: 2005-06-25 22:05
Logged In: YES user_id=174455 I tried to come up with a doc-patch: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1227545&group_id=5470&atid=305470
msg25454 - (view)	Author: Walter Dörwald (doerwalter) *	Date: 2005-08-31 16:52
Logged In: YES user_id=89016 I'd like to see an example that shows this change from utf8 to latin2.
msg25455 - (view)	Author: Marc-Andre Lemburg (lemburg) *	Date: 2005-08-31 20:43
Logged In: YES user_id=38388 Closing the bug report. Please see follow-ups on the doc-patch.