Hi,
I'am very newbie in Python.
For the moment I'am trying to convert an unicode character to his uppercase
unaccented character.
By example with locale fr_FR:
a,A,à,À should return A
o,O,ô,Ô should return O
½,¼ should return ¼
i,I,î,Î should return I
Have you some suggestions ?
Thank.
Oct 3 '07
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JBJ wrote:
Steve Holden wrote:
>Duncan Booth wrote:
>>ti******@gmail. com wrote:
On Oct 4, 7:35 am, JBJ <Jean-Bernard.jacquet-at-tele-deux-
point...@inv alid.orgwrote:
Hi,
I'am very newbie in Python.
For the moment I'am trying to convert an unicode character to his
uppercase unaccented character.
By example with locale fr_FR:
a,A,à,À should return A
o,O,ô,Ô should return O
?,? should return ?
i,I,î,Î should return I
>
Have you some suggestions ?
>
Thank.
Unicode strings have an upper() method - try that. I'm think it
should work properly with your locale - it doesn't give the expected
result for me with an english locale.
No, that will uppercase the string, but it doesn't (and shouldn't) strip
the accents:
I can agree that is doesn't (though I am taking your word for it), but a
French person will definitely feel it's doing the wrong thing. Upper
case letters aren't accented in written French.
regards
Steve
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/lan...l#accentuation
Malheureusement , I see that absence of accented capitals is a modern
phenomenon that is regarded as an impediment to the language mostly
stemming from laziness of individual authors and inadequacy of low-end
typesetting software. I hadn't realised I was so up-to-date ;-)
So I will have to stop propagating this misinformation.
regards
Steve
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Steve Holden wrote:
Malheureusement , I see that absence of accented capitals is a modern
phenomenon that is regarded as an impediment to the language mostly
stemming from laziness of individual authors and inadequacy of low-end
typesetting software. I hadn't realised I was so up-to-date ;-)
So I will have to stop propagating this misinformation.
Thats really weird, because I was taught in school that caps are not to
be accented. In school! Big Brother is an idiot.
I'm equally ammused by the part of JBJ's link where it says that a
missing acccent "fait hésiter sur la prononciation". Yeah, AS IF written
French had anything to do with the way it is pronounced. Not that I
don't like french, mind you. Everywhere outside action movies its pretty
cool.
/W
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
Steve Holden wrote:
>Malheureusemen t, I see that absence of accented capitals is a modern
phenomenon that is regarded as an impediment to the language mostly
stemming from laziness of individual authors and inadequacy of low-end
typesetting software. I hadn't realised I was so up-to-date ;-)
So I will have to stop propagating this misinformation.
Thats really weird, because I was taught in school that caps are not to
be accented. In school! Big Brother is an idiot.
I'm equally ammused by the part of JBJ's link where it says that a
missing acccent "fait hésiter sur la prononciation". Yeah, AS IF written
French had anything to do with the way it is pronounced. Not that I
don't like french, mind you. Everywhere outside action movies its pretty
cool.
/W
Then you never saw Taxi. Or some of Depardieu's ones. Or Les
adventuriers (sp?) (that's a reeeeally old one), or I comme Icarus.... This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics | |
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