Re: Question about “Uppercase” in DerivedCoreProperties.txt

From: Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden_at_yandex.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:41:30 +0100

Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
 |glibc is not more borken and any other C library implementing toupper and
 |tolower from the legacy "ctype" standard library. These are old APIs that
 |are just widely used and still have valid contexts were they are simple and
 |safe to use. But they are not meant to convert text.

Hah! Legacy is good.. I'd wish a usable successor were already
standardized by ISO C.

--steffen
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