Re: downcase'ing wrt locale in smtpmail.el

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 12 2008, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr writes:
> [...]
>>> In smtpmail.el, protocol messages are getting downcased with respect
>>> to current locale. For instance, it downcases AUTH methods (LOGIN,
>>> PLAIN, etc.) and then compares them with the related downcased symbols
>>> '(login plain ...). And in Turkish, a downcased I is ı (dotless i),
>>> not i. Therefore, comparison fails because of logın != login or plaın
>>> != plain. IMHO, downcased must be applied using en_US locale.
> [...]
>> I just noticed this report.  Is there a function in elisp that does
>> downcase in the C locale?  For this use, we only care about ASCII, so a
>> 'tr A-Z a-z' would work.  Do smtpmail.el have to implement a
>> 'downcase-ascii' function itself?
>
> Chong Yidong has fixed some similar issues in smtpmail.el using
> with-case-table / ascii-case-table, see
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64489/focus=64496
>
> See <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/68859> for the quite
> long discussion about this problem (Subject: ... Locale Dependent
> Downcasing in smtpmail).  Oh, know I notice that
> <yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr> reported this problem, so I'd guess it has
> been fixed by Chong Yidong's change.

I'm happy to hear that it has already been fixed.  I didn't notice any
follow-ups on the post to emacs-pretest, that's why I asked again.

Thanks,
/Simon