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From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: strcoll(3) case sensitivity?
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Hi!

On many unix systems, strcoll(3) is case insensitive for locales other than 
C/POSIX. Not so for FreeBSD. Just curious, is this a design decision or 
simply the lack of time and efforts to write the code for it?

Regards,
Palle