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Matthew Flatt <mflatt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I appreciate this line of reasoning, and I'm now convinced that SRFI-75 > (and R6RS) should include locale-independent procedures > > string-upcase > string-downcase > string-titlecase > > that use the locale-independent part of SpecialCasing.txt. I'll add > that to the SRFI, pending further discussion. Yay! (Can we have an optional locale argument too?) > Although I agree that the 1-1 mapping is of limited use, my impression > and experience is that it's still useful (if, for nothing else, > interfacing to older code that uses a 1-1 mapping). So, pending further > discussion, I will leave the character-casing operations in place. Can we specify exactly what these return in terms of string-*case? Perhaps char-upcase should return the first character of the result of string-upcase on a one-character string. I once did a survey of the code I had written which did case mapping, and I discovered, to my surprise, that I did not need even *one* case of char mapping. In every case where I used char mapping functions, it was in some kind of loop across a string. In the years since, I keep track, and I still haven't found a situation where the char functions were needed and string functions were not better. Also, we need string-caseindependent-= or something of the kind. Thomas