Re: Just curious: who is using Pike for what?

>The Unicode spec doesn't say that case conversions have to be
>symmetrical. I don't particularly like the term "special", as it
>implies that it handles _only_ the special cases; can't we use
>"Unicode.upper_case"? In most situations, it's going to return the
>same thing that upper_case does, so the choice between the two would
>be down to whether you care about the string staying the same length,
>or about the strict conversions.

Unicode.upper_case() is going to be confused with upper_case().

The choice would also be if you should apply locale specific
conversions. How does Python handle that?