On 17.09.2015 20:14, Scott Hess wrote: > The problem is that there are LOCALE settings where tolower() does things C > programmers don't expect. I think tr_TR was one case, the handling of 'I' > (Google "tr_tr locale bug" and you'll see lots of people hitting the same > general problem). It isn't a problem of type safety, it's a problem that > the same inputs might have different outputs for certain library functions > when you change environment variables. I don't remember whether there were > specific problems with other ctype functions, or if I just thought it was a > good idea to be careful, once I realized the class of problem.
And this check-in therefore misses the point as it does not address this LOCALE problem IMHO: http://www.sqlite.org/src/info/6713e35b8a8c997a Ralf
