From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gettext for Ada Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:09:23 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2c5d0dff-bc12-4b37-b8e1-ac176c3e675f@googlegroups.com> <40dc6a79-9434-4b5a-bed0-50ee1dfb74c5@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: MyFhHs417jM9AgzRpXn7yg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49242 Date: 2017-11-29T10:09:23+01:00 List-Id: On 28/11/2017 23:41, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 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. (:-)) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de