Pablo Saratxaga writes:
> > why not make it case insensitive?
>
> I think the problem is because the actual data is stored on disk.
> That is, on filesystems that are case sensitive, the locale name is
> case sensitive (unless you try all the possible case combinations when
> reading directory names; which would be a bit wastefull).
This is definitely not the problem. The implementation could simply
map the locale name to lower case _before_ accessing the disk.
Implementations are allowed to do this; SUSV2 says "If the [locale
name] does not begin with a slash, the mechanism used to locate the
locale is implementation-dependent."
The problem is that Bram is the only person asking for that feature,
and thus it hasn't found its way into glibc.
Bruno
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