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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace latin-1-specific case-manipulation
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> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:25:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > I think it's simply because Emacs didn't have
> > 'capitalize' back then.  That code survived
> > since 1990.  So of course it's OK to use
> > capitalize now.
> 
> FWIW, I think I used `capitalize', `capitalize-word',
> and `capitalize-region' long ago, in the mid 1980s.

In what program?  Emacs was first released "in mid 1980s", did you use
Emacs before version 18.

> I could be mistaken, but my recollection is that
> at least commands like `capitalize-word' and
> `upcase-word' were used back then.

For ASCII, most probably.