This function is ambiguous. Is it asking for a lexical, character by character conversion to lowercase Or for a whole-word conversion For example, Greek capital Sigma has two lower case forms, one reserved for use as the terminal letter in a word. As written, it is not clear whether this function should be implemented to take that into consideration or not.

Clarify what it means to convert to lower case.

3.17.7.201 te

LOWER 2704(2111)

Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment CO-0194 (Modified: 2007-12-04) Agreed; the following change will be made to Part 4, §3.17.7.201, page 2,704, lines 4 and 7: 3.17.7.201 LOWER Description: Makes a lowercase version of string by doing a character-by-character conversion of string to lowercase, except as noted below. [Note: The conversion of characters in string is not dependent on position/context of the character within the string, except as noted below. end note] Arguments: Name Type Description string Text Designates the string to be converted. Return Type and Value: text ­ The lowercase version of string after doing a character-by-character conversion to lowercase. However, there is one exception; when is found in a word-final position, it is converted to instead of . Similar Comments: CL-0150 , FR-0471 , GB-0414 , US-0211