Comment by golergka
11 years ago
> var isCapital function(s) { return s[0] === s[0].toUpperCase(); };
> isCapital("שלום");
true
> isCapital("1");
true
> isCapital('\uD83D\uDE00'); // Smiling emoji
true
> isCapital(\u279B); // Right-facing arrow
true
> isCapital("\u061Casd"); //Bidirectional control character
true
> isCapital(" ");
true
If "true" is not a valid answer, what would've been one? Similar code in C# returns the same. E.g. Console.WriteLine("שלום".ToUpperInvariant()=="שלום") returns true.
Hebrew doesn't have upper and lower case, so the question "is this hebrew character capital" is meaningless. So, the function in question should not return just a boolean value; it should have a way to return a third option. (Whether it's nil, a C-style return code, an exception, an enum or something else is irrelevant here.)
Actually, it just means that if you're wondering "if this word starts with a capital", you're asking a wrong question. Instead, you should be asking "if this word is a valid generic name", or "is this word a start of a new sentence", and implement these semantic queries in a language-specific way.
You have final-forms in Hebrew, although probably not at the same level of support for checking as you'd get with a script like Arabic.
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