From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One more string functions change
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:46:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83simq6spc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53AD9FDB.80705@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:46:19 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> Perhaps some day Emacs will support better case conversion, e.g., we
> could extend the third argument so that if it's a case table, that case
> table is used rather than the default one.
That's not enough. Currently, Emacs down-cases using the current
buffer's settings. This is TRT in some cases, but very wrong in
others. It is especially wrong when down-casing strings (as opposed
to portions of a buffer), because there's no reason to believe that a
particular string being processed has any relevance to the current
buffer and its defaults.
IOW, we don't have any good way of specifying language- or
locale-specific case-folding. E.g., try writing a function that
compares file names case-insensitively for a given locale. FWIW, I
think _that_ is where we should concentrate our energy, not on
nano-improvements such as the one proposed here. But hey! 90% of
Emacs development energy goes to such changes, while important missing
features are being left unimplemented for years. So who am I to
complain?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-27 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-27 15:27 One more string functions change Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-27 15:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-27 16:46 ` Paul Eggert
2014-06-27 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-06-27 20:46 ` Paul Eggert
2014-06-27 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-28 16:21 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-28 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-29 2:53 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-29 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-29 16:38 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-29 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-30 6:21 ` Internationalize Emacs's messages [Was: Re: One more string functions change] Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-28 17:26 ` One more string functions change Yuri Khan
2014-06-27 22:46 ` Drew Adams
2014-06-28 3:48 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-28 13:48 ` Drew Adams
2014-06-28 16:32 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-30 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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