> I am not sure what is the best solution either. I was just trying to
> get the kernel routines that appeared to be using c library functions
> to use a standard one instead of rolling their own. I agree with you 
> about the locale issues, but so far the file system code is us centric.
> So what is better? Let the filesystem code use a single strncasecmp,
> or let each filesystem roll their own? In reality the majority of
> filesystems are developed in the states anyway?

In Japan (and probably in China, Taiwan, Korea, and others), there is 
already a problem in msdosfs, I intend to send PR to fix it (adding 
mount option to msdosfs).
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soda@sra.co.jp		Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan
(Noriyuki Soda)		   software tools and technology group