Re: strcasecmp/tolower/toupper breakage



On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:35:47AM -0400, Christopher James Lahey wrote:
> What is the use of these functions?  If we're doing comparisons of
> strings in a case-insensitive way, shouldn't we always use a utf8
> strcoll?  What use is it other than that?

No, I have many places where I;m comparing program specific non-user visible
ascii strings.  In fact this is the largest class of my uses of strcasecmp
that I've found.  I want to be locale independent here.

George

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George <jirka 5z com>
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   - No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
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