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Re: One more string functions change
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: One more string functions change |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:46:55 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:46:19 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>
> Perhaps some day Emacs will support better case conversion, e.g., we
> could extend the third argument so that if it's a case table, that case
> table is used rather than the default one.
That's not enough. Currently, Emacs down-cases using the current
buffer's settings. This is TRT in some cases, but very wrong in
others. It is especially wrong when down-casing strings (as opposed
to portions of a buffer), because there's no reason to believe that a
particular string being processed has any relevance to the current
buffer and its defaults.
IOW, we don't have any good way of specifying language- or
locale-specific case-folding. E.g., try writing a function that
compares file names case-insensitively for a given locale. FWIW, I
think _that_ is where we should concentrate our energy, not on
nano-improvements such as the one proposed here. But hey! 90% of
Emacs development energy goes to such changes, while important missing
features are being left unimplemented for years. So who am I to
complain?
- One more string functions change, Dmitry Antipov, 2014/06/27
- Re: One more string functions change, Andreas Schwab, 2014/06/27
- Re: One more string functions change, Paul Eggert, 2014/06/27
- Re: One more string functions change,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: One more string functions change, Dmitry Antipov, 2014/06/28
- Re: One more string functions change, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/06/28
- Re: One more string functions change, Dmitry Antipov, 2014/06/28
- Re: One more string functions change, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/06/29
- Re: One more string functions change, Dmitry Antipov, 2014/06/29
- Re: One more string functions change, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/06/29
- Internationalize Emacs's messages [Was: Re: One more string functions change], Dmitry Antipov, 2014/06/30
- Re: One more string functions change, Yuri Khan, 2014/06/28