Re: More character matching bits

[Damien Neil]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:03:26PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> I don't think just /i should do that, as it seems rather extreme. (If you 
> took that argument, it would seem to follow that KATAKANA LETTER A matches 
> LATIN CAPITAL A, and I don't think we want to go there) The actual 
> perl-level modifier's not all that important as much as the decision to 
> allow or not allow this sort of thing.

Well, KATAKANA LETTER A and LATIN CAPITAL A are referring to very
distinct things.  It's just that the Katakana letter is romanized
as "A".

I can see the argument that /i isn't the right way to do this, though.

I do think that this is a useful ability to have.  In the same way
that case-insensitive search is the default in most English user
interfaces, character set-insensitive search is the default in
many Japanese UIs.

                      - Damien