Re: bug in join: case comparisons don't work in multibyte locales

[Ben Pfaff]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>                       | on NUL terminated    | on memory areas or
>                       | strings              | strings with embedded NULs
> ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------------
> For ASCII strings     | c_strcasecmp,        |
> only                  | STRCASEEQ            |
> ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------------
> For unibyte locales   | strcasecmp           | memcasecmp
> only                  |                      |
> ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------------
> Support for multibyte | mbscasecmp           | mbmemcasecmp
> locales               |                      |
>     ------------------+----------------------+---------------------------
>   + German, Greek etc.|                      | ulc_casecmp
> ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------------
> Support for multibyte |                      | mbmemcasecoll
> locales and locale    |                      |
> collation order       |                      |
>     ------------------+----------------------+---------------------------
>   + German, Greek etc.|                      | ulc_casecoll
> ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------------

Bruno, that's a nice diagram.  Could it be included in the gnulib
documentation somewhere, or perhaps as a comment in an
appropriate header file?
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
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