Re: Need "case folding quickcheck"

Now I understand. I filed a related bug on:
http://www.jtcsv.com/cgibin/private/icu-bugs-private/properties?id=3375, so
you might add a reply comment to that.

‎Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deborah Goldsmith" <[email protected]>
To: "Mark Davis" <[email protected]>
Cc: "icu list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 19:34
Subject: Re: Need "case folding quickcheck"


> Yes, but I don't want the set of characters that can change under *any*
> case operation; I only want the set of characters that change
> specifically under case folding, and nothing else. Lowercase letters
> like "a" do not change under case folding. However, lowercase letters
> like ß *do* change under case folding, so
> [[:Case_Sensitive:]-[:Lowercase:]] does not work.
>
> The reason I need this is for a process that needs to handle huge
> amounts of text. I can't afford to call u_strCaseFold unless there is
> something that actually needs to be folded. So I need to build a USet
> of things that need special handling, and then convert that to a bitmap
> for the BMP (and just calling u_strCaseFold if there is an SMP
> character).
>
> Deborah
>
> On Dec 6, 2004, at 6:59 PM, Mark Davis wrote:
>
> > I thought case-sensitive included everything that could change or be
> > changed
> > to under upper/lower/title/folding. Markus worked the most with this
> > stuff
> > lately, so he'd probably have the best answer.
> >
> > ‎Mark
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Deborah Goldsmith" <[email protected]>
> > To: "icu list" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 18:45
> > Subject: Need "case folding quickcheck"
> >
> >
> >> I need to build a USet that is the set of characters that might change
> >> under case folding. The best I have been able to come up with so far
> >> is
> >> something like:
> >>
> >> [[[:Case_Sensitive:]-[:Lowercase:]][exceptions]]
> >>
> >> where "exceptions" is basically everything in CaseFolding.txt that
> >> contains the word "SMALL".
> >>
> >> Is there a better way to do this?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Deborah
> >>
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