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diff --git a/doc/gperf.texi b/doc/gperf.texi index b9ce792..56676ce 100644 --- a/doc/gperf.texi +++ b/doc/gperf.texi @@ -436,6 +436,12 @@ commas or newlines. Allows you to include a @code{struct} type declaration for generated code; see above for an example. +@item %ignore-case +@cindex @samp{%ignore-case} +Consider upper and lower case ASCII characters as equivalent. The string +comparison will use a case insignificant character comparison. Note that +locale dependent case mappings are ignored. + @item %language=@var{language-name} @cindex @samp{%language} Instructs @code{gperf} to generate code in the language specified by the @@ -790,6 +796,17 @@ part of the type declaration. Keywords and additional fields may follow this, one group of fields per line. A set of examples for generating perfect hash tables and functions for Ada, C, C++, Pascal, Modula 2, Modula 3 and JavaScript reserved words are distributed with this release. + +@item --ignore-case +Consider upper and lower case ASCII characters as equivalent. The string +comparison will use a case insignificant character comparison. Note that +locale dependent case mappings are ignored. This option is therefore not +suitable if a properly internationalized or locale aware case mapping +should be used. (For example, in a Turkish locale, the upper case equivalent +of the lowercase ASCII letter @samp{i} is the non-ASCII character +@samp{capital i with dot above}.) For this case, it is better to apply +an uppercase or lowercase conversion on the string before passing it to +the @code{gperf} generated function. @end table @node Output Language, Output Details, Input Details, Options |