Re: bug in join: case comparisons don't work in multibyte locales

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> James Youngman wrote:
>> My first reaction was, why isn't libunistring===glibc
>
> glibc means to implement POSIX and be the interface to the system calls.
> The general guideline nowadays among glibc maintainers is "no new API"
> (unless it's a new system call). IIRC, when libidn was added to glibc as
> an add-on, Ulrich Drepper asked Simon Josefsson to remove all functionality
> that was not immediately needed for libidn.

Actually the libidn add-on is not in glibc proper (i.e., /lib/libc.so),
it is in a loadable module.  I think the policy around adding such code
is not necessarily the same as adding code to the base glibc.  On the
other hand, with the glibc+libidn work, there were no new API functions
added to glibc, just some new getaddrinfo flags.

However I think a separate project like libunistring that export gnulib
code as a shared library is a better idea, so I'm happy with that.

/Simon