Re: For some strange reason
Re: For some strange reason
- Subject: Re: For some strange reason
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:13:18 -0700
At 12:09 PM -0400 6/4/11, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>There have been many attempts at reforming German typography to introduce an uppercase version of a letter that never had one before. It's nice that they added it to Unicode (four years ago) so that folks who wish to adopt it can do so in electronic text, and so the letter is available for use in other mixed-case scripts, but the last time I looked it was not exactly catching on in actual German use. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ß>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ß
The key thing to consider is actual usage. People who want to change the case of strings typically aren't dealing with arbitrary languages. They have a use case and want to deal with it.
First off, we're scripting in AppleScript, which means we're pretty constrained in our choices of languages and applications.
Second, I provide SmartString in source format, so if there are additional transforms needed, they can be added.
Third, we're all here to discuss the options, tradeoffs and details. Just because we can't implement a perfect solution doesn't mean that we shouldn't implement any solution. All programs come with tradeoffs and considerations.
In that vein, this discussion has been helpful, as has the code a variety of us have provided. If it helps you, then you're welcome. ;)
Jon
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