GNU bug report logs - #18150
24.3.92; Uppercase umlauts and case-fold-search t

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.92

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 18150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 18150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18150: 24.3.92; Uppercase umlauts and case-fold-search t
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:09:02 +0200

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:53:41 +0100
> Cc: 18150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Confirmed on emacs -Q (GNU Emacs 25.1.50.2, commit 4ccd268).
> 
> Best,
> mb
> 
> On 2014-07-30, at 18:11, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > sorry if this is just a unibyte/multibyte thing I don't understand, but
> > it makes no sense to me:
> >
> >   (let ((str "École")
> >         (case-fold-search t))
> >     (when (string-match "[[:upper:]]" str)
> >       (match-string 0 str)))
> >
> > ==> "c"
> >
> > However,
> >
> >   (let ((str "École")
> >         (case-fold-search nil))
> >     (when (string-match "[[:upper:]]" str)
> >       (match-string 0 str)))
> >
> > ==> "É"
> >
> > I would expect "É" in both examples.

What do we expect the result to be in the variant below?

   (let ((str "ecole")
         (case-fold-search t))
     (when (string-match "[[:upper:]]" str)
       (match-string 0 str)))
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