Bruno Haible wrote:
> Bram Moolenaar writes:
>
> > > > I still haven't heard a reason why setlocale() needs to be
> > > > case-sensitive.
> > >
> > > It isn't in glibc.
> >
> > Ah, after all that discussion you are telling me that it already works
> > like I desired?
>
> Oops, Markus and I got it wrong here. Correction:
>
> The standards don't specify that setlocale() would be case INsensitive.
> Therefore in glibc setlocale() is case sensitive on the language_territory
> part.
Hmm, I'm disappointed. So why is it case sensitive? Don't say it's because
of some standard. I would like to know the real reason.
Would there be two locale names that differ only by case? If not, then why
not make it case insensitive? Wouldn't hurt anybody and makes life easier.
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