Rename std.ctype to std.ascii?

[David Nadlinger]

On 6/14/11 11:20 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On 2011-06-14 01:51, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> But the functions in<ctype.h>  do. And there can be some
>> locale-dependent problems even if you use only ASCII, the most prominent
>> being the different handling of »i« in the Turkish locale:
>> http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/turkish-i18n.html
>>
>> This is probably another reason why it shouldn't be called std.ctype…
>
>  From the looks of it, that affects extended ASCII but not ASCII (since the
> Turkish uppercase I isn't even in ASCII). It's definitely a great link though.
> Thanks!

Oh, I was probably a bit unclear – what I meant is that it affects you 
also if you use only ASCII input, since toupper('i') == 221 when your 
locale is tr_TR.ISO-8859-9.

David