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Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems
On Jun 15 10:45, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 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.
Ok, I see.
Just in this specific case it's about filenames, not C source. I don't
think it makes sense to restrict filenames to ASCII or EBCDIC chars.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
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