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24.3; upcase-word &c. functions partially fail for Coptic

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From: "William Parsons" <wbparsons <at> cshore.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: wbparsons <at> cshore.com
Subject: 24.3; upcase-word &c. functions partially fail for Coptic
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:50:16 -0400

The upcase/downcase/capitalize functions only work for some letters for
Coptic (Unicode utf-8 encoding).  For example, applying the downcase-word
function to the following snippet (all in upper case) of Coptic:

ϨⲒϪⲰϤ

results in the first, third, & last letters being down-cased, but the 2nd
and 4th remaining upper-case.

The Coptic alphabet is in origin an extension of the Greek alphabet, and
the Unicode encoding is unusual in that it is divided between two code
blocks, the Greek/Coptic code block (0370), and the Coptic code block (2C80).
(Confusingly, the Coptic letters that come from Greek reside in the
Coptic code block, and the purely Coptic letters reside in the Greek
block.)

It appears the case functions work for the purely Coptic letters but not
for the letters derived from Greek.

I realize this is probably not a high-priority item (after all, how many
Emacs users can there be who want to use it for Coptic text?), so if I
can help in fixing this I will be happy to do so.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-portbld-freebsd9.2, GTK+ Version 2.24.22)
 of 2014-03-24 on anukis.local
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10707000
Configured using:
 `configure '--localstatedir=/var' '--without-compress-info'
 '--without-dbus' '--without-gconf' '--with-gif' '--with-gnutls'
 '--without-gsettings' '--with-jpeg' '--with-m17n-flt'
 '--with-imagemagick' '--with-libotf' '--with-png'
 '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-sound' '--with-rsvg'
 '--with-sync-input' '--with-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xim'
 '--with-xml2' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk2' '--with-x'
 '--x-libraries=/usr/local/lib' '--x-includes=/usr/local/include'
 '--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man'
 '--infodir=/usr/local/share/emacs/info/'
 '--build=i386-portbld-freebsd9.2' 'build_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd9.2'
 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing' 'LDFLAGS=
 -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib -ltinfo'
 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include' 'CPP=gcpp''

Important settings:
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
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  tooltip-mode: t
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  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <file> <Open Recent> 
</home/william/doc/coptic.txt> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <S-f3> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> 1 <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-3> <mouse-3> <down-mouse-3> 
<mouse-3> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <up> <up> <up> <up> <help-echo> M-z <down> 
<down> <down> C-M-l C-S-l C-S-l C-S-l <right> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <up> C-S-l C-S-l C-S-l <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> s-d <left> s-d <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <up> C-a C-S-l C-S-l C-S-l M-z M-z M-z 
M-z M-z M-z M-z M-z M-z M-1 M-f <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <f1> k <print> <f1> k C-S-x M-1 <help-echo> 
<S-f3> 3 <f3> . e m <tab> . s <tab> <return> <f1> k 
s-d <f1> k C-S-d M-1 <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<menu-bar> <tools> <compare> <ediff-buffers> <return> 
<return> n n p <switch-frame> n M-z <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<switch-frame> <help-echo> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<help-echo> n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> n <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> a n 
a n <switch-frame> <switch-frame> a n <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> a n n n n q <switch-frame> y <switch-frame> 
<f2> M-1 RET M-z <help-echo> M-3 C-S-x r e p <tab> 
o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Only white-space differences in region 7 
Refining difference region 8 ...
Region 9 in buffer A is empty [2 times]
Region 10 in buffer A is empty [2 times]
Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)  y
Saving file /home/william/.emacs...
Wrote /home/william/.emacs
Undo!
Making completion list... [2 times]
Killing buffer *Completions*

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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Message #10 received at 17243-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: William Parsons <wbparsons <at> cshore.com>
Cc: 17243-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17243: 24.3;
 upcase-word &c. functions partially fail for Coptic
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 11:44:05 +0300

> From: "William Parsons" <wbparsons <at> cshore.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:50:16 -0400
> Cc: wbparsons <at> cshore.com
> 
> The upcase/downcase/capitalize functions only work for some letters for
> Coptic (Unicode utf-8 encoding).  For example, applying the downcase-word
> function to the following snippet (all in upper case) of Coptic:
> 
> ϨⲒϪⲰϤ
> 
> results in the first, third, & last letters being down-cased, but the 2nd
> and 4th remaining upper-case.
> 
> The Coptic alphabet is in origin an extension of the Greek alphabet, and
> the Unicode encoding is unusual in that it is divided between two code
> blocks, the Greek/Coptic code block (0370), and the Coptic code block (2C80).
> (Confusingly, the Coptic letters that come from Greek reside in the
> Coptic code block, and the purely Coptic letters reside in the Greek
> block.)
> 
> It appears the case functions work for the purely Coptic letters but not
> for the letters derived from Greek.

Thanks, I fixed this in revision 116945 on the emacs-24 branch, so
this bug will be fixed in the upcoming Emacs 24.4 release.

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