Re: regex and case-fold-search problem

[Miles Bader]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:51:46AM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> I mean that the concept of character range itself is not good.  A character
> code is just an identifier of a character.  We usually don't think about "a
> range of identifiers" (e.g. "symbols in the range between t and nil" is
> nonsense).

Yeah, but character ranges make perfect sense in many local contexts.
E.g., [0-9], or [<0>-<9>] where <0> and <9> are `wide' digits from some
character set.

I think that in cases where the notion of a character range _does_ make
sense, that either both ends will be downcase-able, or that both will not, so
that perhaps the problem won't actually show up in practice if we just say
`only use character ranges when they make sense!'

-Miles
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