On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 19:14, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 06/08/2011 10:14 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: > >> So, for the upcoming gawk 4.0, I decided (as Karl put it) to cut the >> Gordian knot and make ranges behave like the C locale, the way it's long >> been documented, and as most people expect. Those who want the POSIX >> behavior can still get it using --posix. > > This comment and the ensuing thread seems to be assuming old POSIX.
No, it's glibc who does. In the first message I mention that there is no need to change behavior based on POSIXLY_CORRECT. Paolo