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Ticket 319: Make special treatment of CAPITAL SIGMA optional

2012-10-05 12:26:30
WG1 - Core
cowan
major
cowan
fixed
source
closed
2011-12-21 08:22:21
defect

Currently we require that if the characters GREEK LETTER CAPITAL SIGMA, SMALL SIGMA, and SMALL FINAL SIGMA are supported by an implementation, that a CAPITAL SIGMA in a string passed to string-downcase be changed to SMALL FINAL SIGMA just before a word break, and SMALL SIGMA otherwise. Word breaks are defined by UAX #29, and are no simple matter. I propose to make this behavior optional, allowing CAPITAL SIGMA to be downcased to SMALL SIGMA in every case.

statusnewdecided

The WG voted to adopt this proposal.

owneralexshinncowan
statusdecidedwriting
resolutionfixed
statuswritingclosed