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> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:39:38 -0400
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> We don't?  That's news to me.  The tables are 257 entries long and
> runtime updateable, specifically to allow for locale-specific updates.
> Our locale code doesn't do it, but the is* functions support it.

That's what I meant: our locale functions don't do it.  So you cannot,
e.g., case-convert non-ASCII characters without frobbing the tables
used by the is* functions.