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Re: case-insensitive string comparison
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Sam Steingold |
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Re: case-insensitive string comparison |
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Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:06:41 -0400 |
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> * Roland Winkler <jvaxyre@tah.bet> [2022-07-20 11:24:38 -0500]:
>
> On Tue, Jul 19 2022, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> PS. Actually, compare-strings/ignore_case is broken because it does,
>>> essentially, upcase both arguments, see
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/q/319426/850781
>>
>> Hmm... `string-collate-equalp`?
>
> - BBDB needs to know whether a name is already present in the database
> or not, ignoring case. The function bbdb-string= is again what Sam
> suggests to put into subr.el. The function string-collate-equalp
> might be better suited for this. But which locale should it use?
`bbdb-file-coding-system' ?
> Is there a "univeral default locale"?
UTF-8 is, I think, the generally accepted universal default today.
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- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, (continued)
Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Stefan Kangas, 2022/07/19
Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/19
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Sam Steingold, 2022/07/19
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/19
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Stefan Monnier, 2022/07/19
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Sam Steingold, 2022/07/20
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/20
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- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/20
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/20
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/20
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/20
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/20
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/20
- RE: [External] : Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Drew Adams, 2022/07/20
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/21
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Roland Winkler, 2022/07/21
- Re: case-insensitive string comparison, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/21