Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not override LC_CTYPE

[Alan Cox]

> This is tolower/toupper()?  Do there exist locales where tolower/toupper
> on ASCII input do weird things, or are we merely hypothesizing?

Turkish is the famous one for this and usually causes
internationalisation chaos. So yes they exist, and there are worse more
esoteric cases. There are good reasons sed and friends support classes as
well as old C locale style ranges.

Alan
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