[erlang-questions] Bug in string:to_{lower,upper}/1?

Richard O'Keefe ok@REDACTED
Fri Oct 10 06:16:20 CEST 2008


In string.erl we find

to_lower_char(C) when is_integer(C),  C >= $A, C =< $Z ->
     C + 32;
to_lower_char(C) when is_integer(C),  C >= 16#C1, C =< 16#D6 ->
     C + 32;
to_lower_char(C) when is_integer(C),  C >= 16#D8, C =< 16#DE ->
     C + 32;
to_lower_char(C) ->
     C.

to_upper_char(C) when is_integer(C),  C >= $a, C =< $z ->
     C - 32;
to_upper_char(C) when is_integer(C),  C >= 16#E1, C =< 16#F6 ->
     C - 32;
to_upper_char(C) when is_integer(C),  C >= 16#F8, C =< 16#FE ->
     C - 32;
to_upper_char(C) ->
     C.

But 16#C0 is capital A with grave,
which is an upper case letter that should be converted,
and to_lower_char/1 does not recognise it.
I think 16#C1 should be 16#C0.

And 16#E0 is lower case A with grave,
which is a lower case letter that should be converted,
but to_upper_char/1 does not recognise it.
I think 16#E1 should be 16#E0.

While these functions are not export,
they are the guts of to_lower/1 and to_upper/1.





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