[TYPO3-core] RFC: Fix Bug 6428 - strtoupper doesn't work with turkish i

[Steffen Kamper]

"Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]" <ernst at cron-it.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1193570491.28448.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...

>
> A nice idea would be to have a t3lib_div::asciiToUpper($string) method
> which will only handle 7bit characters but will ignore current locale
> (doing tr/a..z/A..Z/ for example). I think there are many extensions
> which do a strtoupper for internal purposes without thinking about the
> implication with other locales. Even I didn't know about that
> restriction in turkish. I thought a-z was "alphabetic" characters in all
> languages. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Ernesto

indeed that would be the best solution. I start to try this but was unlucky 
for now.

btw - in php6 this will be corrected, but not for php5:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42063

vg  Steffen