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bear <bear@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Making symbols case-sensitive and not requiring case operations > that work on single characters, I believe, is enough to make it > possible for interested implementors to create fully unicode > compliant schemata. I don't want case-sensitive symbols. I think we should say that symbols may or may not be case-sensitive. In my opinion, case-folding on symbols in a fancy-schmancy Unicode system should fold together case and also diacriticals. This is a common way of handling things. The canonical printed form of a symbol would be that in which it was first encountered, or perhaps could even be mutable. So I don't want the standard to impede this. It can perfectly well mandate case folding for the required character set; that is at least clearly defined. But I'm happy leaving it optional. The only things that need to be specified are what you can rely on for the standard character set. Thomas