Re: [icu-bug] incoming/3746

Is this a fix that's proposed for ulocdata_getExemplarSet?

I will echo Mark in that I think having public API for doing the  
appropriate closures on an *existing* USet would be useful. That way  
clients could choose whether they wanted the case closure or not.

Deborah Goldsmith
Internationalization, Unicode liaison
Apple Computer, Inc.
[email protected]

On May 11, 2004, at 10:44 AM, George Rhoten wrote:

> Here is the 2 line fix for this issue.
>
>         uset_applyPattern(fillIn, exemplarChars, len,
>                           USET_IGNORE_SPACE | USET_CASE_INSENSITIVE,
> status);
>
> This API is draft 2.8.  It is not internal.
>
> George Rhoten
> IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU  San José, CA, USA
> ICU main website: http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/index.html
>
>
>
>
> "Mark Davis" <[email protected]>
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> 05/11/2004 10:21 AM
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>         To:     <[email protected]>
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>         Subject:        Re: [icu-bug] incoming/3746
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>
> Hmmm. We do have internal API that computes the case-closure of a set,  
> and
> that
> computes the canonical-equivalence closure. Perhaps we should think  
> about
> making
> those public APIs in the future.
>
> Mark
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Tue, 2004 May 11 08:53
> Subject: [icu-bug] incoming/3746
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>
>> new message incoming/3746
>> URL: http://www.jtcsv.com/cgi-bin/icu-bugs?findid=3746
>>
>> ====> ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS <====
>>
>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Tue May 11 11:53:18 2004
>> Subject: Should exemplar character set be case-insensitive?
>>
>> Full_Name: Deborah Goldsmith
>> Version: 2.8
>> OS: all
>> PROJECT: ICU4C
>> JAVA:
>> Submission from: (NULL) (24.6.137.96)
>>
>>
>> Right now the API that returns the exemplar character set in  
>> ulocdata.h
> just
>> creates a set directly from the (lowercase-only) locale data.  
>> Shouldn't
> it be
>> specifying the case-insensitive option when creating the set from the
> pattern
> in
>> the locale data? One problem is that once the set is returned, the  
>> only
> way to
>> get the case-insensitive version is to turn it back into a pattern,  
>> then
>> recreate the set with the case-insensitive option. There is no public
> API to
>> compute the case-closure of an existing set (that would also be an
> acceptable
>> solution).
>>
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