Is unicode.lower() locale-independent?

[Robert Kern]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Even if towlower() gets used? I've found an explicit statement that the
>> conversion it does can be locale-specific:
>>
>>   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8h19t214.aspx
> 
> Right. However, the build option of Python where that's the case is
> deprecated.

Excellent. Thank you.

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Robert Kern

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