Re: Lowercase equivalent to uppercase, or vice versa

"Rick Smith" <ricksmith@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As to letter case in COBOL, there are some lowercase
letters that may translate to either of two uppercase
letters, depending on context; while uppercase letters
only map to one lowercase letter, that provided in an
annex in the COBOL standard.


Rick,
Didn't you say this backwards (or am I misunderstanding your intent)?

The "lower-case" letters
ë
é
è
ê
and e

are all treated as "equivalent" (via folding) to
E
at least for some (most) alphabets - as used in COBOL.

I can't think of any examples where an individual lower-case letter corresponds
to two different upper-case letters. There *are* cases where there isn't any
correspondence OR the correspondence is from a single symbol to multiple
letters, e.g.
ß and "SS"

and some diagraphs also do odd mapping.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com


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