Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi David,

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:15 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eluze <address@hidden> writes:
> please also consider making LP fully case-insensitive
>
> We had that discussion a few times already and the reasoning has not
> changed.  Upper/lowercase is not defined independently from locale, and
> having identifiers being the same or different depending on the current
> locale is not the best idea.  For example, in Turkish, the following are
> upper/lowercase pairs: I/ı and İ/i.  In some languages, the uppercase
> characters lose any accents they might have as lowercase letters.
>
> And so forth and so on.  There is no such thing as "fully
> case-insensitive".

that's a very good answer and a convincing example against
case-insensitiveness.  Many thanks!
Janek