Re: Case mapping of sharp s

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ulrich Mueller writes:

 > And how do you know that a UTF-8 encoded character is e.g. in the
 > Latin-1 set, without testing the first byte(s) of the multibyte
 > sequence?

We have tested the first bytes in the *pattern*, and that's enough
because we're doing Boyer-Moore.