⚠️ Deprecated ⚠️

This is deprecated since version 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: func@GLib.ascii_strncasecmp, which only works on ASCII and is not locale-sensitive, and func@GLib.utf8_casefold followed by strcmp() on the resulting strings, which is good for case-insensitive sorting of UTF-8.

A case-insensitive string comparison, corresponding to the standard strncasecmp() function on platforms which support it. It is similar to func@GLib.strcasecmp except it only compares the first @n characters of the strings.

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