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Two-and-a-half years ago, I wrote: On Mon Jan 30 18:34:57 2012, jkeenan wrote: > > > > There has been no movement on this ticket for nearly eleven years. > > Does anyone feel we are in need of the "setlocale acrobatics" discussed > in this ticket? If so, then we should probably outline those in a new > RT. If not, we should close the ticket. > Subsequently, Karl Williamson wrote: > > [T]hings have been cleaned up for 5.20. 'use locale' is required > for locale to be visible to Perl space, but not to POSIX:: space. The > POSIX::isfoo functions are now > deprecated, instead of fixing their bugs. The one remaining issue I > see in this ticket is the POSIX::toupper and ::tolower functions don't > respect locale, unlike the other POSIX functions. This is trivial to > change, but I'm not sure we shouldn't just deprecate these as well; > they have behaved identically to uc() and lc() for some time, except > that the latter can be made to respect locale. > > So the question is do we fix these or deprecate them? When I later asked: > >> Can we now move forward with the deprecation? > >> > Karl commented further: > But actually, there may be a reason to fix and not deprecate, and that > is fixing is trivial, that is, it's less work in the short term than > deprecating. > Can we move toward a resolution of this 13-1/2-year-old ticket? Suggestions? Patches? Thank you very much. -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=5907Thread Previous | Thread Next