Re: [VOTE] Locale-independent case conversion
| From: | Tim Starling | Date: | Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:47:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [VOTE] Locale-independent case conversion | ||
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On 25/11/21 7:55 pm, Nicolas Grekas wrote:
>
> I voted yes because I want to see this happen but I raised a point
> in https://externals.io/message/116141#116259
> <https://externals.io/message/116141#116259> and
> didn't get an answer:
>
> Despite their name, I never used natcase functions for natural
> language
> processing. I use them eg to sort lists of files in a directory,
> to account
> for numbers mainly. But that's not what I would call natural
> language
> processing. I'm not aware of anyone using them for that
> actually. I'm
> wondering if it's a good idea to postpone migrating them to an
> hypothetical
> future as to me, the whole reasoning of the RFC applies to them.
>
>
> I wish the strnatcasecmp() and natcasesort() function, but also the
> SORT_NATURAL flag were also covered by this RFC.
> Is that possible? Would it make sense?
I'm not going to migrate those functions at this time. It's just a
project scope decision.
-- Tim Starling