Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 13:00, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:07:35AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I cannot reproduce that:
>
> That's because you forgot to call setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
> first.  Without that the comparison is done in C locale always.
>

I thought that I could set the locale in the bash environment. Other
apps, such as yum, do respond to that, though they may be coded to
check. Thanks.


> As for why in tr_TR this is different, in tr_TR.UTF-8
> wcscasecmp (L"hijkl", L"HİJKL") == 0
> and
> wcscasecmp (L"hıjkl", L"HIJKL") == 0
> (i.e. uppercase for i is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE
> and lowercase for I is LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I).
> This is especially problematic because i and I are single byte
> in UTF-8 while İ and ı are two byte.
>

Thank you for that explanation. This is very important to know, and I
concede that it weakens my argument in favor of a case-insensitive
option for yum. In fact, I am no longer of that opinion, I am now
convinced. Thanks.

This is why I enjoy discussing / arguing with intelligent people. I
learn new things.


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