Re: guile-1.7.0 - srfi-13 - Segmentation fault

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: David Pirotte <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:26:33 -0300
> 
> I just downloaded the latest guile-1.7 cvs and:
> 
>       guile> (use-modules (srfi srfi-13))
>       guile> (string-titlecase "LIège")
>       "LièGe"                                         <== should be "Liège"
>       guile> (string-capitalize "LIège")
>       "LièGe"                                         <== should be "Liège"
>       guile> (string-capitalize "LIege")
>       "Liege"                                         ok
>       guile> (string-capitalize "L'ECLUSE")
>       "L'Ecluse"                                      ok
>       guile> (string-capitalize "L'éCLUSE")
>       "L'éCluse"                                      <== should be "L'écluse"
> 
> it appears that anything folling an 8-bit char is capitalised, where it should
> not necessarily (I think)

string-titlecase (and string-capitalize as well, I think) capitalise
every alphabetic character after a non-alphabetic character, and they
are only prepared for 7-bit ASCII for now.  They use the function
scm_char_alphabetic_p to check whether a character is alphabetic or
not, and this is unfortunately not enough for anyone outside US and
GB...

I thought I had mentioned that in the docs, but apparently not.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time right now, but maybe someone else
could add an explanation to the docs for the string case mapping
procedures.

'martin