Re: [HACKERS] Bug #659: lower()/upper() bug on

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>
> > > > > There are "full width alphabets" in Japanese. Thoes include not only
> > > > > ASCII letters but also some European characters.
> > > >
> > > > Are these ASCII and European characters uppercased in some
> > > > Japanese-specific way ?
> > >
> > > Probably not, but I'm not sure since my Linux box does not have *.utf8
> > > locales.
> >
> > Could you give me the utf-8 bytecode for one japanese upper case char and
> > for the same char the lower case?
> > I will check in de_DE locale if this translations works.
>
> Ok, here is the data you requested. The first three bytes (0xefbca1)
> represents full-width capital "A", the rest three bytes (0xefbd81)
> represents full-width lower case "a".

Thank you for the data, it is working in ja_JP.utf8 and in de_DE.utf8
I send you my test program as attachment.

Regards,
Michael