[erlang-questions] Downcase Accented characters

[Roberto Ostinelli]

For the records, this just works..

start() ->
Unicode = list_to_binary("∞-HOpe@☺.EXAMple.com/My❤"),
Result = list_to_binary(string:to_lower(binary_to_list(Unicode))),
"∞-hope@☺.example.com/my❤" = binary_to_list(Result).

any downsides I'm not seeing?

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Roberto Ostinelli <roberto@REDACTED>wrote:

> Thank you Loïc,
>
> did you happen to benchmark it? Would that be better/faster than a simple
> list_to_binary(string:to_lower(binary_to_list(Bin)))?
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> On 10/21/2012 09:14 PM, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> I've a binary string which includes accented characters and unicode,
>>> that i need to downcase.
>>>
>>> Is my real best option here to convert everything to list and downcase
>>> that?
>>>
>>
>> Your current best option is ux_string:to_lower/1 from the ux library
>> which will properly lower all characters, not just A-Z.
>>
>> Should be at https://github.com/erlang-**unicode/ux<https://github.com/erlang-unicode/ux>
>>
>> --
>> Loďc Hoguin
>> Erlang Cowboy
>> Nine Nines
>> http://ninenines.eu
>>
>
>
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