[erlang-questions] Downcase Accented characters

[Roberto Ostinelli]

Oh I see.

So if I want to downcase this string: "∞-HOpe@☺.ÉXAMple.com/My❤" I will
need ux?

r.

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:

> This only works for letters found in latin1, not for all the uppercases
> found in unicode. If that's good enough for you then you don't need ux. :)
>
>
> On 10/21/2012 09:39 PM, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
>
>> 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 <http://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
>> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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>
>>
>>         <https://github.com/erlang-**unicode/ux<https://github.com/erlang-unicode/ux>
>> >
>>
>>         --
>>         Loďc Hoguin
>>         Erlang Cowboy
>>         Nine Nines
>>         http://ninenines.eu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Loïc Hoguin
>
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