From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@inbox.ru>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not override LC_CTYPE
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:52:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100111105201.2d86135b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B47CACA.7080103@zytor.com>
> This is tolower/toupper()? Do there exist locales where tolower/toupper
> on ASCII input do weird things, or are we merely hypothesizing?
Turkish is the famous one for this and usually causes
internationalisation chaos. So yes they exist, and there are worse more
esoteric cases. There are good reasons sed and friends support classes as
well as old C locale style ranges.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-11 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-24 11:13 [patch] Makefile: Unexport LANG Simon Horman
2009-12-26 4:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-26 5:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-26 11:20 ` Simon Horman
2010-01-08 0:41 ` Simon Horman
2010-01-08 0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-08 2:45 ` Simon Horman
2010-01-08 2:59 ` Simon Horman
2010-01-08 11:57 ` Michal Marek
2010-01-08 12:16 ` [PATCH] Makefile: do not override LC_CTYPE Michal Marek
2010-01-08 12:16 ` Michal Marek
2010-01-08 18:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-08 18:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09 0:00 ` Simon Horman
2010-01-09 0:00 ` Simon Horman
2010-01-09 0:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09 0:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09 0:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-09 0:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-09 0:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09 0:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09 0:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-09 0:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-09 0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09 0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09 0:53 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-09 0:53 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-11 9:52 ` Michal Marek
2010-01-11 9:52 ` Michal Marek
2010-01-11 10:52 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-01-12 0:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-12 0:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09 1:07 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-09 1:07 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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