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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Documentation bug
In-Reply-To: <kig4tegn3g1.fsf@jagor.srce.hr>
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "Hrv" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

Hrv> (char-equal ?sh ?SH)  ; case-insensitive compatison
Hrv> (char> ?sh ?s)
Hrv> (char< ?sh ?t)        ; ?sh is between ?s and ?t

Hrv> I don't know how hard this is to add, but it's *definitely*
Hrv> non-trivial, and it *cannot* be achieved with just implicit conversion
Hrv> to integer.  If we don't want a brain-damaged implementation, that is.

It's highly non-trivial, and definitely local-culture-dependent.  Even within
iso8859-1, the order of characters is dependent on the locale.

Martin

