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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace latin-1-specific case-manipulation
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 05:37:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ef81hkwb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <779A26F9-FE8F-477E-81BD-86200977E81D@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:47:17 +0100)

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:47:17 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > How did you deduce it was for Latin-1?
> 
> Just a guess, from the bitwise AND with octal 337 which corresponds to the positions of upper/lower case letters in Latin-1.
> But I suppose it could work for other in the ISO 8859-n series as well.

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.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-21  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-20 14:26 [PATCH] Replace latin-1-specific case-manipulation Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-20 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-20 20:47   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-21  3:37     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-02-21  5:25       ` Drew Adams
2019-02-21 14:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-21  9:30       ` Mattias Engdegård
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     [not found] ` <<83va1egypa.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<779A26F9-FE8F-477E-81BD-86200977E81D@acm.org>
     [not found]     ` <<83ef81hkwb.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <<b5545b1f-2488-4943-a063-09c25ace7b9b@default>
     [not found]         ` <<834l8xgqbx.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-02-21 15:23           ` Drew Adams

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