Case-insensitive char/string comparison

Data.Char provides functions to convert case, but does not provide a function to perform case-insensitive char/string comparison. Note that such functionality cannot be obtained by simply comparing for equality after performing toUpper/toLower, because some languages have things like multiple lowercase characters corresponding to the same uppercase character.

For example, in Greek, converting either σ or ς to uppercase yields Σ, while the inverse always yields σ. Consequently, the convert-all-to-uppercase approach would produce a false positive when comparing σ to ς, and the convert-all-to-lowercase approach would produce a false negative when comparing Σ to ς.

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Version	6.6.1
Type	FeatureRequest
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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