[ruby-core:92610] [Ruby trunk Bug#15816] String#casecmp compares uppercase characters instead of lowercase

[mame@ruby-lang.org]

Issue #15816 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).


Until ruby 1.8.7, it seemed to use downcase.  It was changed at r14227 to support encoding.  I think the behavior change was not intended, so this is merely a bug?

```
# ./bin/ruby-1.8.7-p374 -e 'p "a".casecmp("[")'
1

# ./bin/ruby-1.9.0-0 -e 'p "a".casecmp("[")'
-1
```

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Bug #15816: String#casecmp compares uppercase characters instead of lowercase
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15816#change-77970

* Author: jonathanhefner (Jonathan Hefner)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN
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The current implementation of `String#casecmp` converts characters to uppercase before comparing them.  However, all references I've found for `strcasecmp` (the C function on which `String#casecmp` is based) indicate characters should be converted to lowercase before being compared.

For example, [this man page](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/eoan/man3/strcasecmp.3.html) says:

> The POSIX.1-2008 standard says ... shall behave as if the strings had been converted to lowercase and then a byte comparison performed.

The difference in behavior is apparent when comparing / sorting strings containing `[`, `\`, `]`, `^`, `_`, or `` ` `` (the characters that occur between `Z` and `a`).  Converting to lowercase sorts these punctuation characters before `A`-`z` along with most of the other punctuation in ASCII, but converting to uppercase sorts these characters after `A`-`z` instead.


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casecmp-lowercase.patch (1.3 KB)


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