UNICODE string case-conversion
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at samba.org
Mon Jan 31 04:54:17 GMT 2000
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> > hey, this is probably more of an NT developer question than anything, but
> > um... i need a strlowerW() function.
>
> > i.e i need a UNICODE function that converts Unidode chatacters to lower
> > case. firstly, does such a function exist, and does it work sensibly on
> > russian etc alphabets, on NT?
>
> For comparison, Wine has the internal functions towlower() and towupper(),
> which operate on single characters. These are exposed in the API as
> towlower/towupper in CRTDLL and apparently also in 'ntdll'.
ohh, ver' cool.
> Are WCHARs treated as fixed length in NT? If not, then there may not be an
yes they are. they don't use utf8.
> In theory, the towlower() function found in glibc 2.1 could also be of use,
> but the behavior of this function is governed by the current locale, so this
> may not be a good choice for your your situation.
wel,, it would, if we could set it.
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