Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751290Ab0AKKtS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:49:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751179Ab0AKKtR (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:49:17 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:58672 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750712Ab0AKKtQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:49:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:52:01 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Masami Hiramatsu , Michal Marek , Simon Horman , Roland Dreier , Sam Ravnborg , Sergei Trofimovich , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not override LC_CTYPE Message-ID: <20100111105201.2d86135b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B47CACA.7080103@zytor.com> References: <20100108115745.GA14758@sepie.suse.cz> <1262952988-16563-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> <4B47C94E.8070302@redhat.com> <4B47CACA.7080103@zytor.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.18.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 628 Lines: 14 > This is tolower/toupper()? Do there exist locales where tolower/toupper > on ASCII input do weird things, or are we merely hypothesizing? Turkish is the famous one for this and usually causes internationalisation chaos. So yes they exist, and there are worse more esoteric cases. There are good reasons sed and friends support classes as well as old C locale style ranges. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/