Re: address@hidden: Locale Dependent Downcasing in smtpmail]

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > > Ideally, searching `maße' should not match `masse', but it should
> > > match `MASSE'.
> 
> Are we talking about Emacs 22 or Emacs 23?  If the former, I don't
> think we should do anything with such complicated case equivalences,
> at least not now.

Yep.

> If you are talking about Emacs 23, I think we should first try to
> design its search routines to cater to all the complications described
> by the Unicode standard, no matter how difficult that is.  Only if
> full compliance turns out to be unbearably hard and slow, should we
> consider less strict adherence.

Hmm.  The `Maße' vs. `Masse' issue is very special.  I doubt that this
is covered by any Unicode Technical Report.  Additionally, it's a
matter of taste.


    Werner