Language change and code breaks

[Guido van Rossum]

> Now that we're in a new century, I think it's time to update to a 
> new excuse!

I didn't mean it as an excuse!

> How about: 
> 
>  Now that everyone's making the transition to multiple language support,
> unicode and multiple encodings, how to you portably define/implement 
> case-insensitive comparison? 

Sorry, no problem.  The Unicode standard defines for each character
whether it is upper or lower case, and what the corresponding
character is in the other case (if any).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)