Re: [yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr: Locale Dependent Downcasing in smtpmail]

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>,
>> 	  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:44:40 +0300
>> 
>> BTW, here are some more buggy line from lisp/gnus: (These are just a
>> small minority of the problematic lines as far as I can see from "grep
>> downcase -RHn lisp/gnus")
>> 
>> nndoc.el:511:   (intern (downcase (mail-header-strip encoding))))))
>> nndoc.el:905:   subtype (downcase (match-string 2 content-type))
>> rfc2047.el:674: (concat "=?" (downcase (symbol-name mime-charset))
>> 
>> Failing Cases:
>> (downcase "ISO-8859-1") ==> ıso-8859-1
>> (downcase "text/plain") ==> text-plaın
>
> Perhaps we should have something like downcase-ascii for such
> situations.

(downcase "i") -> "ı" is clearly wrong even in Turkish.  And so is
(downcase "/") -> "-"

I actually have a hard time believing this.

-- 
David Kastrup