Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?
| From: | Tony Marston | Date: | Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:04:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants? | ||
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"Alain Williams" wrote in message news:20170914135519.GW8096@phcomp.co.uk...
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:48:06PM +0100, Tony Marston wrote:Don't be silly. Neither light bulbs nor television sets are affected by which case is used in which character set. -- Tony Marston"Rowan Collins" wrote in message news:7394E3CE-B05A-474E-8AB5-A651FDD35232@gmail.com...On 14 September 2017 13:59:20 BST, Tony Marston <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> wrote:Have you any idea how arrogant this sounds? Why should "the English-speaking world" get to make up the rules? What criteria make something "a minor language"? Who gave you the right to make such lofty pronouncements?Why should the English-speaking world be forced to suffer just because some minor languages cannot handle case folding?Because the English-speaking world invented both computers and the languages used to program them.The light bulb was invented by an English man (Joseph Swan), the television by a Scott (John Logie Baird); so should the Brits and Scots be the ones that define light bulb and TV standards to suit their convenience ?