strcoll(3) case sensitivity?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Mar 28 19:56:01 PST 2005


In the last episode (Mar 29), Palle Girgensohn said:
> On many unix systems, strcoll(3) is case insensitive for locales
> other than C/POSIX. Not so for FreeBSD. Just curious, is this a
> design decision or simply the lack of time and efforts to write the
> code for it?

The only thing I can find is ache's commit back in 1996 in
/usr/src/share/colldef:

    1996-06-09 12:24  ache
    * la_LN.ISO8859-1.src, la_LN.ISO_8859-1.src, lt_LN.ISO_8859-1.src:

    Make collation table compatible with POSIX WG15 view, i.e. 
    capital letters first


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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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