bug#16731: 24.3.50; Latin small letter sharp s is not considered lower-case

[Stefan Monnier]

>  /* True if C is upper case.  */
> -INLINE bool uppercasep (int c) { return downcase (c) != c; }
> +INLINE bool uppercasep (int c)
> +{
> +  Lisp_Object val;
> +
> +  if (downcase (c) != c)
> +    return true;
> +
> +  if (NILP (Vunicode_category_table))
> +    return false;
> +
> +  val = CHAR_TABLE_REF (Vunicode_category_table, c);
> +  return INTEGERP (val) && XINT (val) == UNICODE_CATEGORY_Lu;
> +}
 
Doesn't sound too bad.  But it does beg the question: why check
(downcase (c) != c) at all, then?


        Stefan