linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not override LC

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Message-ID: <4B4BC75B.405@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:50:35 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...ox.ru>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not override LC_CTYPE

On 01/11/2010 02:52 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> 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.
> 

Ah yes, forgot about Turkish.  Apparently Lithuanian and Azeri also have
special rules for the letters I and J.  Sigh.

	-hpa

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