Bram Moolenaar wrote on 2002-01-21 11:15 UTC: > 87 All of the fields (i.e. LANGUAGE, TERRITORY, CODESET and MODIFIERS) > 88 shall be treated as case sensitive. > > For users it's quite difficult to remember which field is uppercase or > lowercase. It's easy to make a mistake. I don't see a field where > there would be any confusion when case is ignored. So why not ignore > case? I know this makes it a bit more difficult for developers, but > that's a small price to pay for usability.
Usability is provided by GUI selection tools, not by softening syntax specs. The case sensitivity makes a lot of sense as ISO's language and country codes are distinguished by case. [I find case insensitivity (like many other forms of aliases) to be the root of much evil and advise care.] Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
