The section on "String Methods"[1] in the Python documentation states that for the case conversion methods like str.lower(), "For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent." Is there a guarantee that unicode.lower() is locale-*in*dependent?
The section on "Case Conversion" in PEP 100 suggests this, but the code itself looks like to may call the C function towlower() if it is available. On OS X Leopard, the manpage for towlower(3) states that it "uses the current locale" though it doesn't say exactly *how* it uses it. This is the bug I'm trying to fix: http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/643 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5559 [1] http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html [2] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0100/ Thanks. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
