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Re: Downcase of a symbol
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Urs Liska |
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Re: Downcase of a symbol |
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Sat, 13 Aug 2016 17:49:08 +0200 |
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>Case insensitivity is almost never a good idea. It leads to stuff that
>sometimes works and sometimes fails under mysterious circumstances.
>
>For example, you are aware that in a Turkish locale, I downcases to ı
>instead of i , and i uppercases to İ instead of I ?
>
>And if you do search-and-replace operations (like convert-ly does) for
>code changes, you'll only catch some parts.
OK, I'll think about requiring case sensitivity. But then I should probably
require all package directory names to be lowercase - because allowing mixed
case would make life unnecessarily hard for users.
Urs