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Changed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79607 --- shadow/79607 2006-10-06 17:31:31.000000000 -0400 +++ shadow/79607.tmp.14023 2006-10-06 17:31:31.000000000 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Bug#: 79607 +Product: Mono: Runtime +Version: 1.1 +OS: +OS Details: +Status: NEW +Resolution: +Severity: +Priority: Normal +Component: misc +AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +QAContact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +TargetMilestone: --- +URL: +Cc: +Summary: remove use of g_strdown + +We have a few uses of g_strdown in the source code for Mono, but this +routine has been deprecated in glib for the following reasons: + +g_strdown has been deprecated sinceg_strdown has been deprecated since +version 2.2 and should not be used in newly-written code. This function is +totally broken for the reasons discussed in the g_strncasecmp() docs - use +g_ascii_strdown() or g_utf8_strdown() instead. + +And g_strncasecmp says: + + version 2.2 and should not be used in newly-written code. The problem with +g_strncasecmp() is that it does the comparison by calling +toupper()/tolower(). These functions are locale-specific and operate on +single bytes. However, it is impossible to handle things correctly from an +I18N standpoint by operating on bytes, since characters may be multibyte. +Thus g_strncasecmp() is broken if your string is guaranteed to be ASCII, +since it's locale-sensitive, and it's broken if your string is localized, +since it doesn't work on many encodings at all, including UTF-8, EUC-JP, etc. + +Our use is fairly minimal, but we should still fix it. + +Notice that eglib has no support for the alternatives at this point _______________________________________________ mono-bugs maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-bugs
