Greg Price <gnpr...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> I believe that all locale specific things should be in the locale module, not 
> in the str class.

The locale module is all about doing things with the current process-global 
Unix locale. I don't think that'd be an appropriate interface for this -- if 
it's worth doing, it's worth doing in such a way that the same web server 
process can handle requests for Turkish-, Lithuanian-, and Spanish-speaking 
users without having to reset a global variable for each one.

> If a locale specific mapping is requested, this should be done
> explicitly by e.g. providing a parameter to str.lower() / upper() /
> title().

I like this design.

I said "locale" above, but that wasn't quite right, I think -- the file says 
e.g. `tr`, not `tr_TR` and `tr_CY`, and it describes the identifiers as 
"language IDs".  So perhaps

str.lower(*, lang=None)

?  And then

"I".lower(lang="tr") == "ı" == "\N{Latin small letter dotless I}"

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