On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 03:39:52PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > It enables you (us?) to treat two strings that differ only by case as if they > are identical. > > It is guaranteed to work correctly for all locales.
I doubt that this is technically possible as there are languages which map lowercase chars to different uppercase chars depending on context (German ß and Suiss ö come to mind). And there are a few other issues that are not solvable even when using locales. So moving to case sensitive keywords is the only sound solution. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
