Re: [boost] Re: the first version of abstract path manipulation c lass (interface)

From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-31 07:35:17

>Besides, case-insensitive string comparison raises two more questions.
>First, which locale do you do it in?  The program's global locale is
>surely the wrong answer.  Second, std::ctype's mechanism for case
>conversion isn't quite right.  It assumes you can do case conversion one
>letter at a time and it assumes that the uppercase version of a string
>always has the same number of characters as the lowercase version.  Both
>assumptions are wrong.

That's true, and grief this is getting complex :-(

- John Maddock
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