> In principle, I'm all for this, but in practice, I'm going to leave gawk's > code alone for now (there's always 4.1 :-).
As long as --posix is not affecting the choice, that's fine. However, please make sure that compiling gawk --without-included-regex works (it should go without saying)! > I do think it's worth taking this up with Uli, but that can be pursued > separately. In the worst case, RE_RANGES_IGNORE_LOCALES might be an > acceptable addition if he (or the other maintainers) don't want to move > off the current way of doing things. No, I think he would refuse it over his dead body and I agree with him. :) But we do have control over gnulib, and the current choice there already doesn't match glibc's (strcoll-order doesn't always match glibc's collation equivalent ordering), so there's good reason to switch at least gnulib. Paolo
