Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 241 underspecified

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jen...@fl... said:
> That's probably not a very good idea.  strcasecmp() -- if it's present
> at all, it's not part of ISO C -- is usually either locale-dependent
> or ASCII-only.

Hmm.  That bug pervades Tcl - we don't do internationalized caseless
comparison.  And that's rather large kettle of fish - yes, the Unicode
collation algorithms are well specified, but we certainly don't attempt
even string normalisation yet.  I rather think that fixing that issue
(which is already present in [regexp -nocase], [lsort -dictionary], and
so on) is a separate project from the TIP at hand.  I would like to take
it on sooner or later, but since there's only one of me, it would have
to be later rather than sooner.  If someone else wants to have a go at it,
I can certainly provide pointers.

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