# Re: \[PATCH 1/3\] test-ctype: test isascii

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-02-13 19:03:26 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2023/02/7965063
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2023/02/7965063/t.md

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René Scharfe [ref] writes:

>> Yes, that does make sense but it is orthogonal to what sane_ctype
>> wants to address, I would think.
>
> Currently we can only use one or the other variant because our sane
> versions use the same names as the locale-aware ones.  Full overlap
> instead of orthogonality.

Ah, that is true but slightly complicated.  As long as the caller of
walks the string byte-by-byte and calls ispunct() in each iteration,
I do not think any "locale aware ispunct()" do much good to us.

Once callers are made locale aware, I am not sure they would still
want to call the isfoo() functions that have been know to be very
much byte-oriented.

Thanks.


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