[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Scheme should not be changed to be case sensitive.

From: Arthur A. Gleckler <arthur>
Date: Tue Nov 14 17:53:27 2006

On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:48 PM, John Cowan wrote:

> Arthur A. Gleckler scripsit:
>
>> If I read this correctly, Scheme could easily support the "simple
>> case foldings" described there. Supporting "full case folding," on
>> the other hand, would not be possible without locale information
>> specifying how to interpret the file being read. For example, the
>> conversion listed for "MASSE" above is correct for German, but
>> incorrect for English.
>
> No, in fact both simple and full case foldings are locale-independent.
> The example means that all of "masse", "ma??e", "Masse", "Ma??e",
> "MA???E", and "MASSE" case-fold to the same thing, namely "masse".

Rats. That's disappointing.

If I think of a solution, I'll pipe up. But I may have to concede
defeat on this one.

Are there any case-insensitive Schemers out there who are Unicode
wizards, too, or are the two incompatible?
Received on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 17:52:58 UTC