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Re: fnmatch and invalid multibyte characters

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:31:24 -0800
Subject: Re: fnmatch and invalid multibyte characters
References: <jevg2h4wl5.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> When fnmatch detects an invalid multibyte character it should fall back to
> single byte matching, so that "*" has a chance to match such a string.

And why is this better or more correct?  Is there existing practice?


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