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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Makefile: do not override LC_CTYPE
    > 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.

    Alan


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