Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Thu Mar 10 20:02:15 UTC 2011


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:01:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Do you say package names change with each language?.
> 
> No but the question is "abcde" the same as "ABCDE" except for case does

In most locales "abcde" and "ABCDE" is the same when doing case insensitive
comparison, but e.g. wcscasecmp (L"hijkl", L"HIJKL") returns non-zero
in tr_TR.UTF-8 while it returns 0 in en_US.UTF-8 or C locales.

	Jakub


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