RE: [PATCH] Replace latin-1-specific case-manipulation

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > > 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.

GNU Emacs, from the outset of my use of it.

But I don't know if it was before v18.  (I
definitely used v18.)

And I could be mistaken.  My recollection is
using capitalization commands as soon as GNU
Emacs was available (to me), in the 1980s.

My doubt is that this was introduced only in
1990 - but I could be wrong.

In any case, if there's no reason for this
code not to use `capitalize' then use
`capitalize'.  I wouldn't think that that
decision should depend on when `capitalize'
was first introduced.

> > 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.

Yes, probably.  Some non-ASCII latin-1 too,
but I may have used such commands only with
ASCII.