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Re: Subversion 1.4.6 : 3 tests fail when locale is set to Turkish (tr_TR.UTF-8)

From: Nathan Yospe <nyospe_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-12-23 22:56:59 CET

On Dec 23, 2007 7:40 AM, Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> wrote:

> [Branko Cibej]
> > else if (strcasecmp(word, "committed") == 0)
> > {
> > revision->kind = svn_opt_revision_committed;
> > }

> > The interesting thing to note here is that strcasecmp is in fact doing
> > the right thing, since "COMMITTED" and "committed" aren't
> > case-fold-equal in a Turkish locale. I'm not quite sure what to do here.

> else if (strcasecmp(word, "committed") == 0 ||
> strcasecmp(word, "COMMITTED") == 0)

> I know this doesn't technically cover all possible cases, but I believe
> in practice it would be close enough. It would work for Turkish, and
> offhand I don't know of other locales that have a similar irregularity
> with ASCII letters.

The only other irregularities that would affect Latin (the script, not
the language) text are Azeri (identical to Turkish - (tolower('I') !=
'i')) and Lithuanian (I and J when there are accents - not relevant).
I think this fix, applied in the appropriate places, will address all
potential offenders.

--
Nathan F. Yospe
SAP Labs LLC
MDM Core, Los Angeles, CA
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