[perl #48108] [BUG] downcase opcode fails on unicode strings w/o icu

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Sun Oct 05 14:04:37 2008, julianalbo wrote:
> Updated information: we added recently a workaround to the utf8 downcase
> function, by moving code already present out of the ICU #if block.
> 
> This workaround delegates to the ascii downcase when the string has only
> codepoints in the ascii range (the way used to do that check is
> debatable, must be revisited during strings pdd work).
> 
> Extend it to codepoints in the iso-8859-1 range is not so easy, will
> need to check the string content.
> 
> Attempt to transcode will be not helpful if the transcode function used
> also require ICU.

So, the original code snippet provided  works now without ICU;

If there is a need for this to work additionally in the iso-8859-1 range, please open a new 
ticket at https://trac.parrot.org/

Thanks!

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda