From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2008-10-19T00:51:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19381] Re: Constant names in 1.9


On Oct 18, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Basically Ruby's case sensitivity (except for regular expressions)
> works on ASCII region only, mostly because we've followed Tim Bray's
> advice at the past RubyConf (2006?).  I was told that case sensitivity
> is sometimes locale dependent.  I don't think the semantics of a
> program should depend on locale.  Tell me if I'm wrong.

I think you're correct, because otherwise it would be card to have a  
file with (say) utf-8 encoding use a class that was defined in a file  
for 8859-1 encoding.

So the rule is that uppercase means "A-Z", and lower case means "a-z_"  
plus any character over 127?