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Re: A feature and not a bug

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From: Donald Arseneau
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 23:05
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>In article <CARLISLE.92Jul31110158@r8d.cs.man.ac.uk> carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk (David Carlisle) writes:
> 
> 
>   such. Of course this is much easier with TeX3. as even characters in
>   the top half of the font can be assigned uccode values.
> 
> 

In article <ROLFL.92Aug4154913@karl.uio.no>, rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes...
>No, they can't.
> 
>I'm using a UNIX box that understands Latin1, and have defined the top
>half of the font appropriately. But even if a top-half character has been
>assigned an lccode, uccode, and sfcode, it doesn't \uppercase. 
> 
Then Rolf has a non-functioning copy of TeX3.  He should update to version
3.14, or run the trip test.

Donald
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Subject: Re: A feature and not a bug
Summary: Latest TeX should allow uppercase of all 256 characters.
Keywords: \uccode \uppercase
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