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Re: case-insensitive string comparison


From: tomas
Subject: Re: case-insensitive string comparison
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:30:00 +0200

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 02:35:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:39:46 +0200
> > Cc: Mattias EngdegÄrd <mattiase@acm.org>
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>

[...]

> > Human languages are a messy mix, in which politics figures
> > prominently. Unicode reflects that.
> 
> This could be hard on the Unicode Consortium, but relatively easy in
> Emacs: just bind the case table of the current buffer to something
> reasonable around code which performs case-insensitive comparison.

...still: "something reasonable" is (human) language-dependent; if
you're writing a German-Turkish dictionary...

Cheers
-- 
t

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