Subject: Case sensitivity, line labels and the future
From: Martin RUBEY
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:42:50 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> As I wrote in my original post, I *agree* that having core packages in lower
> case might be a good compromise.
Sorry, I only wanted to make my ideas clear.
> I just object the idea of handling and storing all data in lower case. Maxima
> should handle Unicode by default. This will make it much more accessible to
> people in non english environments. However, e.g. in the command line
> interface the user should have an option (maybe as a command line switch) to
> work in a case insensitive environment. In such an environment Unicode
> characters are displayed and can be entered as %XXXX. And when such a user
> doesn't use exotic 3rd party packages he doesn't even need to bother with
> Unicode because everything is in lowercase anyways.
>
> Felix
I think we totally agree.
Martin