ns return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if s1 is found, respectively, to be less than, to match, or be greater than s2.</p>

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<p>OpenSSL extensively uses case insensitive comparison of ASCII strings. Though OpenSSL itself is locale-agnostic, the applications using OpenSSL libraries may unpredictably suffer when they use localization (e.g. Turkish locale is well-known with a specific I/i cases). These functions use C locale for string comparison.</p>

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