From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 11:17:00 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 9AC6816A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:17:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from melon.pingpong.net (82.milagro.bahnhof.net [195.178.168.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B16343D31 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:16:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from girgen@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.pingpong.net [127.0.0.1]) by melon.pingpong.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F044AFC3; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:16:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from melon.pingpong.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (melon.pingpong.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 67459-05-12; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:16:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from palle.girgensohn.se (1-2-8-5a.asp.sth.bostream.se [82.182.157.66]) by melon.pingpong.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1090F4AFC0; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:16:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:16:57 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050329035600.GF12481@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050329035600.GF12481@dan.emsphone.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pingpong.net 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 11:17:00 -0000 --On m=E5ndag, mars 28, 2005 21.56.00 -0600 Dan Nelson=20 wrote: > 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 I wish I could find the POSIX docs for this, but sadly they don't seem to=20 exists openly on the net? /Palle