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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Ideally, searching `maße' should not match `masse', but it should
> > match `MASSE'.
> 
> That's what I wanted to know, but it seems very difficult to
> implement.  Provided that we give up that ideal behaviour,
> which is better; searching `maße' matches both "masse" and
> "MASSE", or searching `maße' doesn't match any of "masse"
> and "MASSE".

The former.  I think it's not worth the trouble to do anything more
complicated here, given that it is quite rare to find both `Masse' and
`Maße' at the same time -- and I'm quite sure that many native German
speakers mix up those two words anyway :-)


    Werner