Re: initcap incompatibility issue

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 nolan(at)celery(dot)tssi(dot)com wrote:

> > As far as I can tell, not capitalizing the first letter after a dash
> > is the only inconsistency with Oracle's implementation of this function.
>
> Wrong again. Oracle also capitalizes the first letter after a comma,
> semicolon, colon, period, and both a single and double quote. (And that's
> all I've tested so far.)
>
> So, I guess I need to write a program to test all possible combinations
> to see how incompatible the function is.
>
> Making this change will be a larger patch than I had initially anticipated.
>
> That also brings into question whether this is really a bugfix or a
> specification change, a question which is relevant since we're in the
> feature freeze for 7.4.

It sounds like Oracle is simply regexing for anything that ISN'T a letter
to initcap right after it. If that's the case, you could just regex too.