On the 03-18-95, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard was chatting with Jon Guthrie:

JP>  >  >> What possible difference could that make?  Even in
routines such as
JP>  >  >> C's stricmp() "ignoring case" is generally
performed by converting
JP>  >  >> both compared characters to uppercase for the duration of the
JP>  >  >> compare.
JP>  >
JP>  >  >   John is implying that there's not necessarily a
one-to-one mapping
JP>  >  >   between lower and upper case in all character sets.
JP>  >
JP>  > The normal way of handling that case is to not map the 
JP>  > characters that have
JP>  > no other-case equivalent.
JP>
JP>  Consider the Greek alphabet.

There's a 'Dos' API that should be used in this situation, it ensures you
get the correct corresponding uppercase characters for the specified
country and codepage.

 usRc = DosCaseMap( usLenStr,     
                    &ctrycCountryInfo, 
                    pszAnyStr);   

 Cheers, Ian.

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