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

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 08:19:07PM +0000, corvid wrote:
> Johannes wrote:
> > I'd just go with the approach in your first patch.
> 
> All right then. Do you have any thoughts on what function names
> would be least unwieldy / most descriptive / best fitting in
> with their surroundings?
> 
> I'm thinking maybe dAsciiToupper() and dStrAsciiCasecmp().

Let's see what others do:

* KDE:      kAsciiToUpper() [1]
* glib:     g_ascii_toupper() [2]
* ffmpeg:   av_toupper() [3]
* libevent: evutil_ascii_strcasecmp() [4]

So dAsciiToupper() and dStrAsciiCasecmp() look good to me.

Cheers,
Johannes

[1] http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kascii_8h.html
[2] http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.28/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html
[3] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.cvs/43420
[4] http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-2.0/doxygen/html/util_8h.html