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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/c-strcase.texi b/gnulib/doc/c-strcase.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb8f75b --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/c-strcase.texi @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +@c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strcase'. + +@c Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +@c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +@c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +@c Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +@c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. + +The @code{c-strcase} module contains case-insensitive string comparison +functions operating on single-byte character strings, like the functions in +@code{<strings.h>}, that operate as if the locale encoding was ASCII. +(The "C" locale on many systems has the locale encoding "ASCII".) + +The functions are: +@smallexample +extern int c_strcasecmp (const char *s1, const char *s2); +extern int c_strncasecmp (const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n); +@end smallexample + +For case conversion here, only ASCII characters are considered to be +upper case or lower case. + +Note: The functions @code{strcasecmp}, @code{strncasecmp} from +@code{<strings.h>} support only unibyte locales; for multibyte locales, +you need the functions @code{mbscasecmp}, @code{mbsncasecmp}, +@code{mbspcasecmp}. |