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Subject: Re: ucwords() vs title case
From: tjerk.meesters@gmail.com (Tjerk Meesters)

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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.

Thoughts?


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