RE: Capitalizing content of a variable

Are there any languages where capitalizing can change the number of
characters?
mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 August 2001 10:50
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Capitalizing content of a variable


> <xsl:value-of
>   select="concat(translate(substring($foo,1,1),'abc...','ABC...'),
>                  substring($foo,2))"/>
>
> But of course this only works as-is for those lucky folks out there
> whose character set is just [a-z][A-Z]

I like to keep my answers short, otherwise I would have explained that "..."
means "all the remaining characters in the alphabet that you are using."

I don't think "z" was mentioned.

Mike Kay
Software AG


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