Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:50:35 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not override LC_CTYPE |
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On 01/11/2010 02:52 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> This is tolower/toupper()? Do there exist locales where tolower/toupper >> on ASCII input do weird things, or are we merely hypothesizing? > > Turkish is the famous one for this and usually causes > internationalisation chaos. So yes they exist, and there are worse more > esoteric cases. There are good reasons sed and friends support classes as > well as old C locale style ranges. >
Ah yes, forgot about Turkish. Apparently Lithuanian and Azeri also have special rules for the letters I and J. Sigh.
-hpa
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