bug#16232: [PATCH] grep: make --ignore-case (-i) faster (sometimes 10x) in multibyte locales

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Thanks for dotting those 'i's.  While there is no risk of buffer
> overrun, there would definitely be a problem with the tr_TR locale.
> I will resolve it by removing the isascii check and performing
> multibyte case conversion to form each [cC] pair.  Of course,
> that will mean removing the "4 * byte-length-of-search-string"
> buffer size limitation.
>
> I will also add tests based on your examples.

Here is the improved patch.

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