Question about "Uppercase" in DerivedCoreProperties.txt

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Mon Nov 10 10:07:50 CST 2014


Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:

> glibc is not more borken and any other C library implementing toupper
> and tolower from the legacy "ctype" standard library. These are old
> APIs that are just widely used and still have valid contexts were they
> are simple and safe to use. But they are not meant to convert text.

Well, of course they are *meant* to convert text. They're just not very
good at it.

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