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Re: Weird case-insensitive collation


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Ludovic Courtès yazmış:
> Hi,
>> http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strcasecmp.html
>> In the POSIX locale, strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() do upper to lower
>> conversions, then a byte comparison. The results are unspecified in
>> other locales.
> 
> It occurred to me that I had not payed enough attention to that last
> sentence from POSIX, sorry about that.
> 
> Still, I find it confusing that the glibc manual specifies (using an
> example) the behavior of `strcasecmp ()' with other locales.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludovic.
> 
Yes, i was thinking after your previous message that it could be a doc
bug. If so it should be logged, IMHO.

HTH,
Reshat.

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