> i would expect
> Unicode to have some sort of awareness of uppercase and lowercase where its
> appropriate.

yes see TR21 at the url posted a minute ago.


> if one does a typical application that is developed in the 4 primary
> european languages ( german, french, english, italian ) then there is a
> clear concept.

I'm not sure it's PC to discount the majority of the world, but assuming
that's OK, apart from SS you can get something acceptable for those
cases using translate() I think, the upper and lowercase mapping strings
wouldn't be that long.


David

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