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From: H. v. L. <"H.>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:42:16 +0200

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Everything written on CAP after my message is right - somehow.

But there is one aspect not yet considered, Chris Burrows argues that
"characters 2 and blank, as used in your example, are not Latin-1
'letters'".

In the same sense the majority of the characters ORD(32) to ORD(64) are
not Latin-1 'letters'. But these 'letters' are mapped to ORD(0) to ORD(31)
by CAP.
And these are reserved characters used by the system which should not be
tampered with by such a simple function like CAP, and I do not want to
check every use of it with something like:
IF ( ch >= "a" ) & ( ch <= "z" ) THEN ...
I judge the actual behaviour dangerous and it seems to be safer to
eliminate CAP completely instead of keeping it as it is.

H. v. Lavergne
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