diff Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @ 32214:6478eb6ae3c0 legacy-trunk

Document string methods that are locale-dependent. Fixes #935749. Will backport to 2.3.
author Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
date Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:47:01 +0000
parents 3a84e23b042f
children b73ab309ada7
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex	Thu Jun 03 09:24:42 2004 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex	Thu Jun 03 09:47:01 2004 +0000
@@ -546,6 +546,8 @@
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{capitalize}{}
 Return a copy of the string with only its first character capitalized.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{center}{width\optional{, fillchar}}
@@ -608,26 +610,36 @@
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{isalnum}{}
 Return true if all characters in the string are alphanumeric and there
 is at least one character, false otherwise.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{isalpha}{}
 Return true if all characters in the string are alphabetic and there
 is at least one character, false otherwise.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{isdigit}{}
 Return true if all characters in the string are digits and there
 is at least one character, false otherwise.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{islower}{}
 Return true if all cased characters in the string are lowercase and
 there is at least one cased character, false otherwise.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{isspace}{}
 Return true if there are only whitespace characters in the string and
 there is at least one character, false otherwise.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{istitle}{}
@@ -635,11 +647,15 @@
 character, for example uppercase characters may only follow uncased
 characters and lowercase characters only cased ones.  Return false
 otherwise.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{isupper}{}
 Return true if all cased characters in the string are uppercase and
 there is at least one cased character, false otherwise.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{iswide}{}
@@ -664,6 +680,8 @@
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{lower}{}
 Return a copy of the string converted to lowercase.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{lstrip}{\optional{chars}}
@@ -752,11 +770,15 @@
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{swapcase}{}
 Return a copy of the string with uppercase characters converted to
 lowercase and vice versa.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{title}{}
 Return a titlecased version of the string: words start with uppercase
 characters, all remaining cased characters are lowercase.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{translate}{table\optional{, deletechars}}
@@ -778,6 +800,8 @@
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{upper}{}
 Return a copy of the string converted to uppercase.
+
+For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[string]{width}{}