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24.3.92; Uppercase umlauts and case-fold-search t

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Message #14 received at 18150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
Subject: Re: bug#18150: 24.3.92; Uppercase umlauts and case-fold-search t
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:38:21 +0100

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

> 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)))

According to the docstring of `case-fold-search', I would expect "e"
(which the expression returns here).

Before having thought about it, 70% of me expected `nil'.


Michael.

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