On 2 September 2014 at 15:16, Jonny Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strcasecmp.3.html > > Is it worth clarifying that this is a byte-wise comparison, or does it also > check locale? It's byte-wise, AFAIK. POSIX says: When the LC_CTYPE category of the locale being used is from the POSIX locale, these functions shall behave as if the strings had been converted to lowercase and then a byte comparison performed. Otherwise, the results are unspecified. I added some text to the man page to clarify. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
