From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 03:56:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8912616A4CE; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:56:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B7E43D31; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:56:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j2T3u0fp046090; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:56:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:56:00 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Palle Girgensohn Message-ID: <20050329035600.GF12481@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strcoll(3) case sensitivity? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:56:01 -0000 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 -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com