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Re: Character classifications

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From: Ian Cargill
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 17:12
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In article <814884085snz@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk>
           walter@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk "walter briscoe" writes:

>
>Latin did not have case as an attribute of its letters; nor, from a
>quick look at the book, does Bengali.
>
>I can imagine locales for both of these languages which would return
>either true or false for both isupper and islower when presented with
>letters.

If something has no case, I don't see that you are justified in 
returning true for either isupper or islower, never mind both.

I'm happy with the concept of something having no case.  You just add it 
to isalpha, but neither isupper or islower.  My perplexion is that it 
seems you could define a character as BOTH upper and lower case, and 
that seems counter-intuitive.

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