Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:53:54PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> 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).
Thus the solution would be to keep the locale directory on an MS-DOS
filesystem...?
There are various ways to ignore case when looking up a file. The glob()
function should be able to do it. OK, it's a bit of work, but that is not a
good reason to let all the users handle the problem, instead of implementing
the solution once.
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