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bug#11786: Use c_strcasecmp for portable ASCII case-insensitive comparis


From: Dmitry Antipov
Subject: bug#11786: Use c_strcasecmp for portable ASCII case-insensitive comparison
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:04:24 +0400
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On 06/26/2012 08:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

First, until revision 108735, committed yesterday by Dmitry, we didn't
use strcasecmp or strncasecmp (except in the NS port, which looks like
an oversight).  We used xtrcasecmp, whose only dependence on the
locale is the tolower function/macro.  Then Dmitry replaced
xstrcasecmp with strcasecmp for those platforms that have it (which I
think means all the supported platforms), for reasons that AFAIK were
never discussed.  Why was that done?

It was an attempt to get rid from the zoo of strcase(n)cmp implementations
(one in etags.c, one in lwlib.c and next one in xfaces.c). I assumed that
these library functions, if available, should work correctly regardless
from the locale on any non-ancient system. If that is not true, gnulib
module may be a workaround.

Dmitry







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