[wx-dev] Re: case insensitive find() in wxString

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:31:29 +0200 Robert Roebling <robert at roebling.de> wrote:

RR> > BTW, why should we switch to std::string in future ?
RR> 
RR> I'm not in favor of that, either, but it has been a request many
RR> time already.

 Not only this but it really doesn't make much sense to continue to provide
our own implementation of wxString[Base] now that std::[w]string is
available everywhere.

RR> But what I'm actually wondering is how you handle Unicode uppercase. It
RR> is easy for a-z, but even Westeuropean languages have more letters than
RR> these. Is there a native function for that or an algorithm etc?

 towupper() standard function is supposed to work for all Unicode
characters. To be fair, I don't know if this is true in practice on all
platforms.

 Regards,
VZ