GNU bug report logs - #16731
24.3.50; Latin small letter sharp s is not considered lower-case

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jorgen Schaefer <forcer <at> forcix.cx>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 10576

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #103 received at 16731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de, 16731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16731: 24.3.50;
 Latin small letter sharp s is not considered lower-case
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:29:31 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de,  16731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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?
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