bug in strcasecmp and strncasecmp

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 17 11:49, Bruno Haible via Cygwin wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Adding a cast fixes that and I just pushed a matching patch.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > I'm just not sure if that's sufficient in the light of POSIX.1-2024.
> > The above expression seems to indicate that strcasecmp and friends are
> > now expected to work on multibyte codesets like UTF-8.
> 
> They can't work on multibyte strings. This is evident from the fact that
> strncasecmp gets one integer as argument, not two integers.

Good point.

With standard functions, one really should convert MB string to wide
char and call wcscasecmp, etc.


Thanks,
Corinna