Re: gettext for Ada

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 28/11/2017 23:41, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
> news:ovk4ss$b9u$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>> On 2017-11-28 01:48, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>>> The above is quite common in my code (perhap premature optimation on my
>>> part, knowing that a function like To_Upper is many times more expensive
>>> than a string compare).
>>
>> I convert the source line to the preferred case as I read it in and then
>> work with that source.
> 
> The is my preference, but there a lot of cases (like command line
> processing) where some parts are in mixed case (which you need to preserve)
> and other parts are case insensitive.

Yes. I keep both strings and use one or anther where appropriate, e.g. 
when showing an error message, or when getting a string literal out of 
the source, the original works better. (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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