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Use c_strcasecmp for portable ASCII case-insensitive comparison

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Message #14 received at 11786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 11786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, dmantipov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#11786: Use c_strcasecmp for portable ASCII
	case-insensitive	comparison
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:31:11 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,  Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>,  11786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:25:03 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Can tolower fail for these, somehow, in a locale that uses a multibyte
> > encoding for these strings, and if so, can you give a practical
> > example of such a failure?
> 
> tolower ('I') in a turkish locale.

OK, but that's not an issue with multibyte locales.

Anyway, I think having a custom replacement for tolower, perhaps using
the code of c_tolower from gnulib or its equivalent, will resolve
this.  Am I missing something?

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