On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Alain [UNKNOWN-8BIT] LaBonté wrote:
> A 04:17 98-03-12 -0800, Jeroen Hellingman a écrit :
> >his field of knowledge, ASCII can be overseen, but Unicode is too large
> >for most people to oversee the effects of a range selection.
>
> [Alain] :
> Even ASCII range is problematic in English...
>
> "A to Z" does not imply "a to z", does it ?
>
> One should not expect the end-user to know what is under the hood!
No, the end-user in this case only needs to ask for capital letters
A to Z, and the programmer (the library writer) should know what
bracket regular expression to use.
Sadly, in reality, programmers have not completely moved away from the
mode of programming for themselves....
Xiao-He
>
> And "A to z" leads to no hit in EBCDIC, while "a to Z" will leads to no hit
> in ASCII!
>
> Alain LaBonté
> Québec
>
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