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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Locale-independent case conversion
From: tstarling@wikimedia.org (Tim Starling)

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On 25/11/21 7:55 pm, Nicolas Grekas wrote:
>
> I voted yes because I want to see this happen but I raised a point
> in https://externals.io/message/116141#116259
> <https://externals.io/message/116141#116259> and didn't get an answer:
>
>     Despite their name, I never used natcase functions for natural
>     language
>     processing. I use them eg to sort lists of files in a directory,
>     to account
>     for numbers mainly. But that's not what I would call natural
>     language
>     processing. I'm not aware of anyone using them for that
>     actually. I'm
>     wondering if it's a good idea to postpone migrating them to an
>     hypothetical
>     future as to me, the whole reasoning of the RFC applies to them.
>
>
> I wish the strnatcasecmp() and natcasesort() function, but also the
> SORT_NATURAL flag were also covered by this RFC.
> Is that possible? Would it make sense?


I'm not going to migrate those functions at this time. It's just a
project scope decision.

-- Tim Starling


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