Re: Just curious: who is using Pike for what?

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pike doesn't handle things like eszett:
>
>> upper_case("ß") == "ß";
> (1) Result: 1
>
> Python does:
>
>>>> "ß".upper()
> 'SS'

>>> sz = "ß"
>>> sz.upper() == sz
True

(python 2.7 apparently doesn't do this, not for me).

Also while "ß" is generally mapped to "SS" when uppercasing in real
life (on signage etc), I personally would truly be shocked if a
programming language did that. Most of the time, in a programming
language, I would suppose people process strings, not text, and "ß" ->
"SS" pretty much only ever makes sense in text processing contexts.
I realize this issue might extend beyond the odd little "ß" character,
but as a native German speaker I can assure you I so far never had any
use for a function that would uppercase "ß" to "SS", while I depended
on upper_case() *not* doing that a lot.

If there should be a need for such a functionality, it certainly
should be provided by an extra function, not handled by upper_case().