Dear Michal,
hmm.
I have written the most complex Czech text file I could think of
containing
the words Cesky and cesky - with hooks, that is, and saved it in UTF8
encoding as file utf8.txt.
Now, having installed Library No. 8 from
_http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html_
(http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html) ,
the following script
#!/c/axelhome/ruby -Ku -rjcode
require “unicode”
text=IO.readlines(“/c/axelhome/ruby/utf8.txt”)
p ‘mytext’
p text
c=text.to_s.split
p c
d=Unicode::downcase(c[0])
e=Unicode::downcase(c[1])
puts “are the first letters equal ? #{d==e}”
On 3/8/06, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:
Dear Michal,
hmm.
I have written the most complex Czech text file I could think of containing
the words Cesky and cesky - with hooks, that is, and saved it in UTF8
hmm, I wonder why C with a hook is called Ccaron in keymaps…
encoding as file utf8.txt.
Now, having installed Library No. 8 from _http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html_
This is much smaller library than icu, and it could be useful for some
other text processing.
Thanks for the link.
But it is still a library one has to install in addition to Ruby. Some
people who install Debian won’t even have a compiler, and almost
nobody has a compiler on Windows.
Also note that unless you know the language you are processing you
cannot get correct upcase/downcase. For one, in most languages using
Latin letters I is uppercase form of i. But I heared that in Turkish
they use both I, I with dot, i, and i without dot. Consequently, I is
uppercase form of i without dot …
Thanks
Michal
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