Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:56:00 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strcoll(3) case sensitivity? Message-ID: <20050329035600.GF12481@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <FFD612D9EBDEC3224095F94C@palle.girgensohn.se> References: <FFD612D9EBDEC3224095F94C@palle.girgensohn.se>
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In the last episode (Mar 29), Palle Girgensohn said:
> 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?
The only thing I can find is ache's commit back in 1996 in
/usr/src/share/colldef:
1996-06-09 12:24 ache
* la_LN.ISO8859-1.src, la_LN.ISO_8859-1.src, lt_LN.ISO_8859-1.src:
Make collation table compatible with POSIX WG15 view, i.e.
capital letters first
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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