Robert Uhl scripsit:
I think that setting *PRINT-CASE* to :DOWNCASE goes a long way to soothing the headaches of a language which defaults to upcasing...internally everything is upcased but it displays attractively.
However, downcasing plays better with Unicode than upcasing does, because there are many Unicode lower-case letters without upper-case equivalents, whereas there are no upper-case letters without lower-case equivalents. The Unicode stability policies guarantee that:
a string properly downcased in the current version of Unicode will remain so in all later versions;
if two characters form (or do not form) an upper/lowercase pair in the current version, they will form (or not form) one in all later versions.
-- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know