Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Any specific reason for the "sane-" prefix? I think it would make more > sense if it was just named ctype.h: see below. I think it is a good idea to keep the sane prefix for two reasons that were described in 4546738b (Unlocalized isspace and friends, 2005-10-13): Do our own ctype.h, just to get the sane semantics: we want locale-independence, _and_ we want the right signed behaviour. Plus we only use a very small subset of ctype.h anyway (isspace, isalpha, isdigit and isalnum).