On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Mihai Ibanescu wrote: >> To follow up on my own email: it looks like, even though in some >> locale >> "INFO".lower() != "info" >> >> u"INFO".lower() == "info" (at least in the Turkish locale). >> >> Is that guaranteed, at least for now (for the current versions of >> python)? > > It's guaranteed for now; unicode.lower is not locale-aware.
That seems backwards of how it should be ideally: the byte-string upper and lower should always do ascii uppering-and-lowering, and the unicode ones should do it according to locale. Perhaps that can be cleaned up in py3k? James _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
