OpenEuphoria

Re: Small feature request for future EU versions

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Oct 23, 2004
• 651 views

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:43:00 +0200, Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de>
wrote:

>Now I downloaded 'nlseu.zip' and compared it:
>Applied to the whole text of Euphoria/Doc/Library.doc, the nlsLower()
>function in 'nlseu.zip' takes 310% of the time that the lower() function
>in 'wildcard.e' uses. 
Probably
>Furthermore, nlsLower() is only for Windows.
True[1]

It will convert to lower case not only the usual A-Z, not only the few
characters in #80..#FF, but also, potentially, if modified to use
CharLowerW instead of CharLowerA, unicode.

(Much) Slower, yes.
However, I wanted to point out that it is fundamentally better, at
least for some purposes.

Regards,
Pete
[1] no doubt there is a similar Linux system call.