I want to know the standard algorithm for converting unicode characters into lowercase as proposed by unicode.org.
Also, do most programming languages follow this proposed standard?
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Programming languages vary in how well they support unicode. Most do not have unicode characters as a built-in type. Typically it is either handled in a library, or by OS calls.
For instance, C++ doesn't have a native unicode character type, but does have locale support in the stl (which is defined as part of the language). Ada does have a native type Wide_Character, as well as library support for manipulating it.
T.E.D.
2010-08-19 13:56:10
"most do not have unicode characters as built-in type": that's no longer true for more modern languages.
Joachim Sauer
2010-08-19 14:08:32
Perhaps, but many of those "older" languages (eg: The C family) are still in immensely heavy use. A lot of those "more modern languages" get more press than use. Still, they are available if native unicode support is important to you.
T.E.D.
2010-08-19 14:15:13
Thanks for the info!
Albert
2010-08-21 04:47:35
Even "modern" languages like Java and C# don't actually have a Unicode character type; `char` means a UTF-16 code unit, which could be only half of a character.
dan04
2010-08-21 21:51:22
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.NET does have unicode support and offers built-in functions to switch between upper and lower case. This is probably true with some other languages, as well.
Russ
2010-08-19 13:57:47