./textproc/p5-Unicode-CaseFold, Unicode case-folding for case-insensitive lookups

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.01nb6, Package name: p5-Unicode-CaseFold-1.01nb6, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

What is Case-Folding?

In non-Unicode contexts, a common idiom to compare two strings
case-insensitively is lc($this) eq lc($that). Before comparing two strings
we normalize them to an all-lowercase version. "Hello", "HELLO", and
"HeLlO" all have the same lowercase form ("hello"), so it doesn't matter
which one we start with; they are all equal to one another after lc.

In Unicode, things aren't so simple. A Unicode character might have
mappings for uppercase, lowercase, and titlecase, and the lowercase mapping
of the uppercase mapping of a given character might not be the character
that you started with! For example lc(uc("\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S"))
is "ss", not the eszett we started off with! Case-folding is a part of the
Unicode standard that allows any two strings that differ from one another
only by case to map to the same "case-folded" form, even when those strings
include characters with complex case-mappings.


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[lang/perl5]

Required to build:
[devel/p5-Module-Build]

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   2023-07-06 11:43:03 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2483)
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*: recursive bump for perl 5.38
   2022-06-28 13:38:00 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3952)
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*: recursive bump for perl 5.36
   2021-10-26 13:23:42 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1161)
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textproc: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes

Unfetchable distfiles (fetched conditionally?):
./textproc/convertlit/distinfo clit18src.zip
   2021-10-07 17:02:49 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1162)
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textproc: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2021-05-24 21:56:06 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3575)
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*: recursive bump for perl 5.34
   2020-08-31 20:13:29 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3631)
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*: bump PKGREVISION for perl-5.32.
   2019-08-11 15:25:21 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3557)
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Bump PKGREVISIONs for perl 5.30.0
   2019-07-01 23:36:01 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (232)
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