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bear <bear@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This is why I think "glyph=character" is more or less required > for a language that wants to have "single character" arguments to > and returns from case mapping functions. You cannot do it in a > fashion compliant to the Unicode standard if you use > "codepoint=character" instead. We cannot have single character arguments for case mapping functions. You can't even do it if you have "glyph=character", because there are case mappings which map multiple characters. (Es-zet being the classic, but hardly the only, example.) > The best we can hope for, and the point of language design, is to make > it easy to do the right thing; there is no way we can prevent > programmers from doing the wrong thing if they're so inclined, nor > even make it the slightest bit difficult. Our duty is to make sure > the right thing is no harder to do than the wrong thing. We should also not provide functions which are automatically the wrong thing.