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:I think the idea was to use the default encoding for a string variable. The hope was probably to show string functions built in to languages. Maybe we could specify to use the encoding of a string literal? --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 12:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC) |
:I think the idea was to use the default encoding for a string variable. The hope was probably to show string functions built in to languages. Maybe we could specify to use the encoding of a string literal? --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 12:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC) |
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::That sounds reasonable. However I think that the task reader would rather expect something else, e.g. an advise how to capitalize a string, which is another and quite non-trivial task. --[[User:Dmitry-kazakov|Dmitry-kazakov]] 12:21, 11 June 2009 (UTC) |
::That sounds reasonable. However I think that the task reader would rather expect something else, e.g. an advise how to capitalize a string, which is another and quite non-trivial task. --[[User:Dmitry-kazakov|Dmitry-kazakov]] 12:21, 11 June 2009 (UTC) |
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:::This task gets hard once you're dealing with non-ASCII, so I'd accept solutions that only handle ASCII and leave everything else alone. If a language supports more (e.g., through locale control) it should be highlighted. —[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 12:52, 11 June 2009 (UTC) |
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I think the task must explicitly refer to an encoding to use. I guess it is should be ASCII or else 8-bit Latin-1. If not, as in the case of a more or less full Unicode, changing the case would require some further definitions, see Unicode case mappings. --Dmitry-kazakov 10:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- I think the idea was to use the default encoding for a string variable. The hope was probably to show string functions built in to languages. Maybe we could specify to use the encoding of a string literal? --Mwn3d 12:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- That sounds reasonable. However I think that the task reader would rather expect something else, e.g. an advise how to capitalize a string, which is another and quite non-trivial task. --Dmitry-kazakov 12:21, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- This task gets hard once you're dealing with non-ASCII, so I'd accept solutions that only handle ASCII and leave everything else alone. If a language supports more (e.g., through locale control) it should be highlighted. —Donal Fellows 12:52, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- That sounds reasonable. However I think that the task reader would rather expect something else, e.g. an advise how to capitalize a string, which is another and quite non-trivial task. --Dmitry-kazakov 12:21, 11 June 2009 (UTC)