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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
November 26, 2011 08:34
Subject:
Re: RFC: fc keyword API
Message ID:
20111126163449.GE26618@cancer.codesimply.com
* Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> [2011-11-26T08:12:36]
> > Is there any real-life advantage of using simple case folding over
> > lowercasing? My impression is not, and if so the discussion is moot.
>
> There is, although I hate to be the one to bring it up because I
> have had a lot of trouble because of simple casefolding in other
> languages than Perl and so like the Unicode Standard itself am
> advocating full casefolding.
More to the point, is there significant value of simple over full?
I think having \F and fc do full, always is more likely to be generally useful,
and simple_fc can be relegated elsewhere – but tell me if you think this is
nuts. I'm pretty sure it isn't, though…
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rjbs
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