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   daniel:// stenberg:// (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 11:36:45 JST daniel:// stenberg://

   On this day seventeen years ago I learned something about locales and Turkish that has scarred me for life: I is not always uppercase i!

   https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/10/15/strcasecmp-in-turkish/

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 11:38:12 JST Wolf480pl

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     @bagder
     couldn't you just temporarly set the locale to POSIX, do the comparison, and then set it ba... oh, wait, threads exist and libc's locale is a global per-process state :(

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 11:38:12 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Wolf480pl
     @wolf480pl @bagder best would probably be strcasecmp_l() which has been in posix since… oh wow 2008 too.