Re: I lied, another question / problem

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# jochem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx / 2007-01-21 00:11:13 +0100:
> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > # jochem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx / 2007-01-17 16:59:26 +0100:
> >> wouldn't it be fair to assume (safety through paranoia) that
> >> ctype_alnum() would suffer the same problem? (given the manual's
> >> indication that ctype_alnum() and the offending regexp are equivalent?)
> > 
> > isalnum(3) uses isalpha(3) and isdigit(3), so yes, their results are
> > locale-dependent (LC_CTYPE, see setlocale(3)), but don't depend on
> > collating sequence. 
> 
> so really the doc's are slightly misleading or even incorrect,

Slightly, in a usually-behaves-as-described-but-for-different-reasons
way.

> as a side note: do you have any real world example of where this
> collation issue might actually bite someone making use of the aforementioned
> regexp range?

Not off the top of my head. :(

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