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Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?
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Janek Warchoł |
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Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase? |
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Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:19:44 +0100 |
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
Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2013/03/23
Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2013/03/25
Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Eluze, 2013/03/26