Re: One more string functions change

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 06/27/2014 11:46 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 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.

What makes you think that the system locale is more relevant? String
may be the result of search/match operation in the buffer at least.

> IOW, we don't have any good way of specifying language- or
> locale-specific case-folding.

What's wrong with case tables? If we're talking about Unicode only,
is it enough/possible/desirable to have just one (huge) case table
for all supported characters?

> 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?

"Why are you being so harsh?  We are not the enemy" (C).

If you have a personal TOTO/wishlist/roadmap/whatever, please share.
(Yes, I know about etc/TODO).

Dmitry