From: Donal K. F. <don...@ma...> - 2005-05-25 08:55:59
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Kevin Kenny wrote: > Hmm. That bug pervades Tcl - we don't do internationalized caseless > comparison. And that's rather large kettle of fish - yes, the Unicode I've heard a nice description for this sort of thing recently: a high- pressure can of worms. As soon as you open it at all, all the worms explode out everywhere... TIP#72 was a classic example of this, and I feel case-insensitivity in an internationalized context is another (I'd be much happier removing it from everywhere in Tcl other than [string to...] where I'd corral the horror, but that's an approach that's incompatible with current code.) Donal. |