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>:>l179: \u titlecase next char
>:>Not sure what 'titlecase' means, or why it is more accurate than
>:>'uppercase', nor why \U was not similarly changed.
>:
>:Because that doesn't happen there. "titlecase" is a Unicode notion.
>:(It's somewhat misleading, since it doesn't really understand proper
>:titlecasing rules in English.) But some scripts (read: charsets)
>:allegedly distinguish between these. That's why toke.c has
>:toUPPER_LC_uni for uc(), but toTITLE_LC_uni for ucfirst().
>I think that's worth expanding on then: taking myself as the
>epitome of the man on the Clapham omnibus, the reader will not
>know what this word means until it is explained.
Well, it's in here:
=item uc
Returns an uppercased version of EXPR. This is the internal
function implementing the C<\U> escape in double-quoted strings.
Respects current LC_CTYPE locale if C<use locale> in force.
See L<perllocale>. Under Unicode (C<use utf8>) it uses the
standard Unicode uppercase mappings. (It does not attempt to
do titlecase mapping on initial letters. See C<ucfirst> for
that.)
=item ucfirst
Returns the value of EXPR with the first character in uppercase
(titlecase in Unicode). This is the internal function implementing
the C<\u> escape in double-quoted strings. Respects current
LC_CTYPE locale if C<use locale> in force. See L<perllocale>
and L<utf8>.
Do you not like that?
--tom
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