[Python-Dev] Unicode mapping tables (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sun, 05 Mar 2000 07:17:31 -0500

[M.-A. Lemburg] > ... > Here's what I'll do: > > * implement .capitalize() in the traditional way for Unicode > objects (simply convert the first char to uppercase)

[Tim]

Given .title(), is .capitalize() of use for Unicode strings? Or is it just a temptation to do something senseless in the Unicode world? If it doesn't make sense, leave it out (this seems like compulsion to implement all current string methods in some way for Unicode, whether or not they make sense).

The intention of this is to make code that does something using strings do exactly the same strings if those strings happen to be Unicode strings with the same values.

The capitalize method returns self[0].upper() + self[1:] -- that may not make sense for e.g. Japanese, but it certainly does for Russian or Greek.

It also does this in JPython.

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