Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:36:27PM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: > ""Christoph M. Becker"" wrote in message > news:98ab178e-b999-7e36-5ff5-7b8c28fe0dd4@gmx.de... > > > >On 14.09.2017 at 14:59, Tony Marston wrote: > > > >>Introducing case sensitivity into what is mostly a case-insensitive > >>world just for the convenience of a few programmers I do not consider to > >>be acceptable. It would cause more problems for far more people than the > >>insignificant few who insist on using obscure character sets. Why should > >>the English-speaking world be forced to suffer just because some minor > >>languages cannot handle case folding? > > > >This is not about an "insignificant few who insist on using obscure > >character sets", but rather about a language spoken by millions of > >people which has to "I" characters, namely dotted and dotless "I". > >Rather consistently, the dotless "I"'s lower-case variant is "i", > >and > >the dotted "I"'s lower-case variant is "i". There you go. > > > > The number of people in the world who use character sets which do > not have this problem far outnumber those who use character sets > which do have this problem. People without this problem far > outnumber the others, so it would not be a good idea to > inconvenience the many just to satisfy the few. Translation: I do not use these character sets, those who do are not important. PHP (& File systems) are best staying away from things like that. Not attempting case folding, and similar, makes it simpler, faster & more robust (not worrying about what sort of 'i' to convert to). It only helps those who do not know what the SHIFT key is for. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include <std_disclaimer.h>