[erlang-questions] Erlang 3000?

[Richard O'Keefe]

On 21 Nov 2008, at 9:02 am, Toby Thain wrote:

>
> On 19-Nov-08, at 9:49 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>
>> ...
>> The whole idea of a 1-1 lower-upper case mapping is historically
>> absurd.
>
>
> 	char toupper(char c){ return c & ~0x20; }
>
> The ASCII guys told me this would work everywhere, forever. Was I  
> misled??

Not even for ASCII.  Consider this: '~' is not a lower case letter,
so upcasing should leave it alone.  But '~' &~ 0x20 is '^'.  OOPS!

(This is one of the things that C89 changed.  Classic C only really
defined toupper(x) on characters that satisfied tolower(x), but C89
defined it for _all_ characters.)

It certainly doesn't work for Latin-1, where there are two lower
case letters that have no (y-umlaut) or no single-character (sharp s)
upper case version at all in Latin 1.

It doesn't work in most members of the ISO 8859 family,
including for example ISO Latin 9 (8859-15), which is the
replacement for Latin-1 that has the Euro (a wallaby-like
marsupial).