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

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Thu Nov 23 23:16:06 2006

Shiro Kawai scripsit:

> > I don't think "case-insensitive" is the right term to describe a
> > reader where foo is neither Foo nor FOO.
>
> So, maybe "case-folding (to uppercase/lowercase)"?

In practice, Unicode case-folding produces lower case, partly
because there are Unicode lower-case letters without upper-case
equivalents, mostly for IPA and other phonetic transcription
systems.

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