Re: Re: ucwords() vs title case

On 30 Jun 2014, at 12:54, Tjerk Meesters <tjerk.meesters@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi internals, > > I came across this old bug: > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34407 > > The desired behaviour for that particular person: > > "the (world) now" => "The (World) Now" > > Currently PHP adopts a very simple rule: > 1. Capitalise first character (no matter what it is) > 2. Capitalise character preceded by a space, tab, etc. > > Using string.title() from Python you'd get the expected behaviour; they use: > 1. Capitalise first letter of a word > 2. Lowercase subsequent letters of a word > 3. Non-letters delimit words > > Personally I find that the latter is too much of a departure from what we > currently have; a compromise could be to treat punctuation as a word > delimiter. Hmm. Why not make it follow what \b in a regex would do, looking for “word boundaries”? -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/