Re: case-insensitive string comparison

[Sam Steingold]

> * Roland Winkler <jvaxyre@tah.bet> [2022-07-20 11:24:38 -0500]:
>
> On Tue, Jul 19 2022, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> PS. Actually, compare-strings/ignore_case is broken because it does,
>>> essentially, upcase both arguments, see
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/q/319426/850781
>>
>> Hmm... `string-collate-equalp`?
>
> - BBDB needs to know whether a name is already present in the database
>   or not, ignoring case.  The function bbdb-string= is again what Sam
>   suggests to put into subr.el.  The function string-collate-equalp
>   might be better suited for this.  But which locale should it use?

`bbdb-file-coding-system' ?

> Is there a "univeral default locale"?

UTF-8 is, I think, the generally accepted universal default today.


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