Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:16:57 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strcoll(3) case sensitivity? Message-ID: <E4431344A2B22B755880A1EF@palle.girgensohn.se> In-Reply-To: <20050329035600.GF12481@dan.emsphone.com> References: <FFD612D9EBDEC3224095F94C@palle.girgensohn.se> <20050329035600.GF12481@dan.emsphone.com>
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--On m=E5ndag, mars 28, 2005 21.56.00 -0600 Dan Nelson=20 <dnelson@allantgroup.com> 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
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