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Subject: Re: bug in strcasecmp and strncasecmp
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:04:59 +0100
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > They can't work on multibyte strings. This is evident from the fact that
> > strncasecmp gets one integer as argument, not two integers.
> 
> Good point.
> 
> With standard functions, one really should convert MB string to wide
> char and call wcscasecmp, etc.

Nope, wide characters are the wrong approach to the problem [1].

Nowadays, ISO C 23 has standardized on char32_t as the portable Unicode
character type. [2] They have left the corresponding functions "as an
exercise to the reader", though. Gnulib and GNU libunistring fill this gap.
See the columns "multibyte strings" and "32-bit wide character strings" in [3].

Bruno

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/The-wchar_005ft-type.html
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/The-char32_005ft-type.html
[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Comparison-of-string-APIs.html




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