Function
GLibstrncasecmp
deprecated: 2.2
Declaration [src]
gint
g_strncasecmp (
  const gchar* s1,
  const gchar* s2,
  guint n
)
Description [src]
A case-insensitive string comparison, corresponding to the standard
strncasecmp() function on platforms which support it. It is similar
to g_strcasecmp() except it only compares the first n characters of
the strings.
Deprecated since: 2.2
The problem with g_strncasecmp() is that it does
  the comparison by calling toupper()/tolower(). These functions
  are locale-specific and operate on single bytes. However, it is
  impossible to handle things correctly from an internationalization
  standpoint by operating on bytes, since characters may be multibyte. Thus g_strncasecmp() is broken if your string is guaranteed to be
  ASCII, since it is locale-sensitive, and it’s broken if your string
  is localized, since it doesn’t work on many encodings at all,
  including UTF-8, EUC-JP, etc.
There are therefore two replacement techniques: g_ascii_strncasecmp(),
  which only works on ASCII and is not locale-sensitive, and
  g_utf8_casefold() followed by strcmp() on the resulting strings,
  which is good for case-insensitive sorting of UTF-8.
Parameters
- s1
- 
            Type: const gchar*String to compare with s2.The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string. 
- s2
- 
            Type: const gchar*String to compare with s1.The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string. 
- n
- 
            Type: guintThe maximum number of characters to compare.