Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:16917 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:516 comp.emacs:3754 Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.emacs Subject: Re: US PC programmers still live in a 7-bit world! Summary: Regrettably, national characters/accents vary nationally. Keywords: 8bit uEMACS Message-ID: <2949@geac.UUCP> Date: 4 Jul 88 13:39:47 GMT Article-I.D.: geac.2949 References: <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> <126@dcs.UUCP> <920@infbs.UUCP> <345@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <7350@j.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) Organization: GEAC Computers, Toronto, CANADA Lines: 36 In article <7350@j.cc.purdue.edu> nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence) writes: [...] > This causes an e with an acute accent to be inserted when the >alt-e combination is struck. > > My problem now is this.... How do I determine how such a >character should be treated when converted to uppercase. Not knowing >the different languages involved, could someone in the know post such >info? Does it vary from language to language? Yes, it does change. For example, french accented characters in France have their accents dropped when converted to uppercase. French accented characters in Canada retain their accents when converted to uppercase. This poses problems for a unilingual Anglo... How are characters like >this treated on UNIX machines of different sorts. Rather than bemoaning >the USA's programmers lack of attention, could someone tell us what is >the right way to handle things like this? Do a literature search, once you become aware there is a problem. [Programmers usually get shortchanged in university, by the way, and often do not hear about literature searches until they hit grad school, where the professors **freak** to discover that the student doesn't have this basic skill. If you've been shortchanged, descend on your local library's reference desk and have them point you at their holdings on the subject --dave] --dave (thats funny, there's no-one in the office today) c-b -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers Ltd., | "His Majesty made you a major 350 Steelcase Road, | because he believed you would Markham, Ontario. | know when not to obey his orders"