Alex Shinn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> writes: > The idea of ASCII-only mappings was suggested for the simple fact > that they are well-defined, and required for many computer formats and > protocols. If R6RS doesn't provide them, every Scheme will in some > form or another, so it's better to standardize them. Call them > ascii-char-ci=? etc. if the specificity bothers you. Actually, if you know the characters are ASCII, then the local-independent Unicode rules *will* correctly do ASCII case mapping. So why do you need special ASCII functions?
