On 2003-09-10 10:58:10 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:27:01PM +0900, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > But case conversion rules should apply to the language of the
> > corresponding text, which isn't necessarily the same as the
> > language chosen by the user (with LC_CTYPE).
> 
> C's toupper() and tolower() functions use LC_CTYPE. It's up to the
> application to figure out if it needs to temporarily do something
> different.

I agree, but then, why not accept "ISO-8859-1" only, from the user's
point of view? Then it's up to the application to select the language.

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