From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news.netway.at!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nnum.kpnqwest.net!EU.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: invert-string revisited References: <3231850263906024@naggum.net> <87k7pfail3.fsf@darkstar.cartan> <83adq924pw.fsf@panacea.canonical.org> <3232311731697130@naggum.net> <83bsaogzdc.fsf@panacea.canonical.org> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3232369159039480@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 16:19:22 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1023380362 193.71.199.50 (Thu, 06 Jun 2002 18:19:22 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 18:19:22 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:34501 * Kragen Sitaker | So far, this is all theoretical. I don't know of any Unicode language | that has actually taken the plunge and declared itself committed to | case-insensitivity. * Erik Naggum > It seems more appropriate to require lowercase-only names in a Unicode- > based language than to allow and preserve mixed case. * Kragen Sitaker | You know what is uppercase today; but what man can say what will be | uppercase tomorrow? Each month Unicode adds a new script. I am at loss to the relevancy to what you quoted me saying. Would you care to elaborate or point me to the missing argument or reasoning? -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. 70 percent of American adults do not understand the scientific process.