changeset 76945:f7f5c44ea73c

Add ascii-case-table and with-case-table.
author Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
date Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:02:37 +0000
parents ceb213515795
children 304abcbfa072
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Wed Apr 04 15:57:04 2007 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Wed Apr 04 16:02:37 2007 +0000
@@ -4046,6 +4046,12 @@
 This combines `defalias' and `make-obsolete'.
 
 +++
+*** New macro `with-case-table'
+
+This executes the body with the case table temporarily set to a given
+case table.
+
++++
 *** New function `unsafep' determines whether a Lisp form is safe.
 
 It returns nil if the given Lisp form can't possibly do anything
@@ -5844,6 +5850,12 @@
 for it.  (If the coding system is detected incorrectly for a specific
 file, you can put a `coding:' tags to override it.)
 
++++
+*** The new variable `ascii-case-table' stores the case table for the
+ascii character set.  Language environments (such as Turkish) may
+alter the case correspondences of ASCII characters.  This variable
+saves the original ASCII case table before any such changes.
+
 ---
 *** The new function `merge-coding-systems' fills in unspecified aspects
 of one coding system from another coding system.