[Development] toLower() vs. toCaseFolded()

[Gian Maxera]

Hello Marc,
I think the answer is into this Wikipedia page:
http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Case_folding <http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Case_folding>

As you can notice, case folding in languages different from English can be more difficult than just lowering the characters.
So, I suppose (it’s only my guess), that the toLower just lower all characters without taking into account the correct language rules while toCaseFolded take into account language.

Ciao,
Gianluca.


> On 9 Dec 2015, at 11:20, Marc Mutz <marc.mutz at kdab.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 09 December 2015 10:57:21 Florian Bruhin wrote:
>> * Marc Mutz <marc.mutz at kdab.com> [2015-12-09 11:54:54 +0100]:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstring.html#toCaseFolded is very vague on what
>>> case folding actually _is_ and how it's different from toLower().
>>> 
>>> Can someone please tell me the difference and why toCaseFolded() exists
>>> in the first place? Is it faster? Is it guaranteed to not make the
>>> string longer/shorter?
>> 
>> Maybe http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Case_folding helps?
> 
> Not really. Neither does it patch our docs... :)
> 
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