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authorduerst <duerst@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2016-06-05 10:06:42 +0000
committerduerst <duerst@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2016-06-05 10:06:42 +0000
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* NEWS: Add news about Unicode-wide case mapping for
String/Symbol#upcase/downcase/swapcase/capitalize(!). git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@55281 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Jun 5 19:06:40 2016 Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
+
+ * NEWS: Add news about Unicode-wide case mapping for
+ String/Symbol#upcase/downcase/swapcase/capitalize(!).
+
Sun Jun 5 15:24:33 2016 Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
* test/ruby/enc/test_case_comprehensive.rb:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5de93112aa..c95933c4a1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -61,12 +61,21 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file or Redmine
* String
+ * String#upcase, String#downcase, String#capitalize, String#swapcase and
+ their bang variants work for all of Unicode, and are no longer limited
+ to ASCII. Variations are available with options. See the documentation
+ of String#downcase for details. [Feature #10085]
+
* String.new(capacity: size) [Feature #12024]
* Symbol
* Symbol#match now returns MatchData. [Bug #11991]
+ * Symbol#upcase, Symbol#downcase, Symbol#capitalize, and Symbol#swapcase now
+ work for all of Unicode. See the documentation of String#downcase
+ for details. [Feature #10085]
+
* MatchData
* MatchData#named_captures [Feature #11999]
@@ -110,6 +119,14 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file or Redmine
klass == rb_cBignum, should be changed to FIXNUM_P(obj) and
RB_TYPE_P(obj, T_BIGNUM).
+* String/Symbol#upcase/downcase/swapcase/capitalize(!) now work for all of
+ Unicode, not only for ASCII. [Feature #10085]
+ No change is needed if the data is in ASCII anyway or if the limitation
+ to ASCII was only tolerated while waiting for a more extensive implementation.
+ A change (using the :ascii option) is needed in cases where Unicode data
+ is processed, but the operation has to be limited to ASCII only.
+ A good example of this are internationalized domain names.
+
=== Stdlib compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
* Time