From 8ba27d7312f811930d9676e4c5c574e411b00ea7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: duerst Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 10:06:42 +0000 Subject: * 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 --- NEWS | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3