Re: ascii string comparison [Re: use C locale for LC_CTYPE]

Johannes wrote:
> Hm, what's the point of the dynamic check? We don't
> want our case insensitive compare function to depend on the user locale, 
> so I would say using strcasecmp(3) and tolower(3) is just wrong in our
> case - even if it happens to return the right values in some setups.
> Why not just use a custom function as in the first patch?

I was curious whether something closer to what Jorge was talking about
would turn out to be more pleasing in some way, and maybe a tad quicker,
for that matter, with their optimized functions, but...yeah, it didn't
really look nicer to me, either.

> Or maybe
> test for strncasecmp_l() in configure and provide a custom solution
> if it doesn't exist?

I'm willing to give that a look as well. At first I was reluctant to
have extra locale calls when the string functions are so cheap to
begin with, but...