Case sensitivity, line labels and the future



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