Subject: Re: bug#16731: 24.3.50; Latin small letter sharp s is not considered lower-case

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:29:31 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:09:32 -0500
> 
> > How could they? these variables are not exposed to Lisp.  Only
> > ascii-case-table is, which is not the one I had in mind.
> 
> Right, I was thinking of standard-case-table.  Still, same problem: take
> that standard case table change it a bit, and suddenly other chars than
> the ones you changed are affected.

But customizing case-tables is already a very special use case.  Why
can't we expect such users to deal with these issues?

The only alternative (besides leaving the original problem unsolved)
is to ignore buffer-local case tables.  Is this more acceptable?