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upcasing strings doesn’t respect standard-case-table

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From: "Thomas Voss" <mail <at> thomasvoss.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: upcasing strings doesn’t respect standard-case-table
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:33:13 +0100

Hi all, quick bug report.

As of 2017 (I believe), the capital eszett (ẞ) was adopted into the
German alphabet as the uppercase variable of ß which was previously (and
which still can be) uppercased to ‘SS’.  Since I prefer to use the newer
ẞ to the older SS, I have the following line in my configuration:

	(set-case-syntax-pair ?ẞ ?ß (standard-case-table))

When working with characters, this behaves as intended:

	(upcase ?ß)
	⇒ ?ẞ

However when working with strings, it doesn’t:

	(upcase "ß")
	⇒ "SS"

The same goes for the ‘upcase-word’ and ‘upcase-dwim’ functions which
still upcase ß to SS.  It seems that whatever code that is handling
case-conversions for multi-character inputs is not respecting the current
case table.

— Thomas

Message #8 received at 74155 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Thomas Voss" <mail <at> thomasvoss.com>
Cc: 74155 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74155: upcasing strings doesn’t respect
 standard-case-table
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:07:38 +0200

> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:33:13 +0100
> From:  "Thomas Voss" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> As of 2017 (I believe), the capital eszett (ẞ) was adopted into the
> German alphabet as the uppercase variable of ß which was previously (and
> which still can be) uppercased to ‘SS’.  Since I prefer to use the newer
> ẞ to the older SS, I have the following line in my configuration:
> 
> 	(set-case-syntax-pair ?ẞ ?ß (standard-case-table))
> 
> When working with characters, this behaves as intended:
> 
> 	(upcase ?ß)
> 	⇒ ?ẞ
> 
> However when working with strings, it doesn’t:
> 
> 	(upcase "ß")
> 	⇒ "SS"
> 
> The same goes for the ‘upcase-word’ and ‘upcase-dwim’ functions which
> still upcase ß to SS.  It seems that whatever code that is handling
> case-conversions for multi-character inputs is not respecting the current
> case table.

This is a feature: characters which have the 'special-uppercase'
property defined for them by the Unicode Standard use their special
upper-case rules that override the case-table.  If you don't want
that, force the special-uppercase property of ß to be nil:

 (upcase "ß")
  => "SS"
 (put-char-code-property ?ß 'special-uppercase nil)
 (upcase "ß")
  => "ẞ"

Message #15 received at 74155-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: mail <at> thomasvoss.com
Cc: 74155-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74155: upcasing strings doesn’t respect
 standard-case-table
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:42:48 +0200

> Cc: 74155 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:07:38 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:33:13 +0100
> > From:  "Thomas Voss" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> > 
> > As of 2017 (I believe), the capital eszett (ẞ) was adopted into the
> > German alphabet as the uppercase variable of ß which was previously (and
> > which still can be) uppercased to ‘SS’.  Since I prefer to use the newer
> > ẞ to the older SS, I have the following line in my configuration:
> > 
> > 	(set-case-syntax-pair ?ẞ ?ß (standard-case-table))
> > 
> > When working with characters, this behaves as intended:
> > 
> > 	(upcase ?ß)
> > 	⇒ ?ẞ
> > 
> > However when working with strings, it doesn’t:
> > 
> > 	(upcase "ß")
> > 	⇒ "SS"
> > 
> > The same goes for the ‘upcase-word’ and ‘upcase-dwim’ functions which
> > still upcase ß to SS.  It seems that whatever code that is handling
> > case-conversions for multi-character inputs is not respecting the current
> > case table.
> 
> This is a feature: characters which have the 'special-uppercase'
> property defined for them by the Unicode Standard use their special
> upper-case rules that override the case-table.  If you don't want
> that, force the special-uppercase property of ß to be nil:
> 
>  (upcase "ß")
>   => "SS"
>  (put-char-code-property ?ß 'special-uppercase nil)
>  (upcase "ß")
>   => "ẞ"

No further comments within 2 weeks, so I'm now closing this bug.

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