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Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> these functions be replaced with multibyte-aware versions?  Along the
> same lines, the entire set of safe-ctype functions only work for ASCII
> and EBCDIC...

That's the whole point of safe-ctype: that code that is processing things 
such as C source code whose semantics do not depend on the host locale can 
examine character properties in a locale-independent way.  Where C source 
code has multibyte characters, the correct handling depends in detail on 
the version of C and cannot be done by generic code.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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