Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 08:43:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: BAD strupr, BAD getw
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> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> 
> This would require tons of locale support (is it in DJGPP?)

Yes, but it's very simplistic for now.

> for different codepages (DOS uses 437 or 850; Windows uses 1252;
> Allegro uses UTF-8 Unicode...)

It's actually much worse: the list of codepages used by DOS is much
longer than these two, the list of Windows codepages is about the same
length, and there are other encodings besides Unicode that can cover
several charsets in one go (e.g., ISO-2022).

The Unicode data-base has all the relevant info, at least as far as
letter-case is concerned, but the size of the tables is preposterously
large.