[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 96799] WebString for Chromium has no way to do case-insensitive comparisons

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96799





--- Comment #6 from Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google) <fishd at chromium.org>  2012-09-14 16:42:02 PST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> In chromium code you can convert a WebString to base::string16 and do a case-insensitive comparison there.  That seems just as easy.
> 
> Case-insensitive comparisons are a bit tricky - depending on your locale and the exact use case it could mean one of many things.  Upper/lowercasing are not reversable operations on arbitrary unicode strings.

^^^ This.  Chromium shouldn't be holding onto WebString.  It is just a data type used to pass information across the API boundary.  I'd be surprised if the cost of copying a WebString matters.

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