Re: case conversion by replace-match

[Kevin Rodgers]

Roland Winkler wrote:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > replace-match only cares that the letters are upper case.
> > It does not know you intend them to stand for something else.
>
> But then I would expect that "=E4" (umlaut-a) and "=F6" (umlaut-o)
> should give rise to a case conversion, too. Or am I once again
> missing something?

No, your expectation is reasonable.  But Emacs is inconsistent in how
non-letters in REGEXP are treated.


BTW, this inconsistency was not present in Emacs 19.34.

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