On 02/19/2012 02:08 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > In basic regular expressions, range expressions are not safe to use outside > the C locale; the results vary between implementations and locales. > > - For 'grep' this was explained in > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2011-06/msg00031.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2012-01/msg00088.html > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32337 > > - For 'tr' I'm seeing this on Solaris 11 2011-11 in de_DE.UTF-8 locale: > $ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | /usr/bin/tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' > AbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyZ > $ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | /usr/bin/tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
That was documented in autoconf recently: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=efa12744 > $ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | /usr/xpg4/bin/tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' > AＢⓒ𝚍ⓔＦGH𝙞JK𝚕ⓜNOＰＱⓡSTUⓥＷⓧＹZ > $ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | /usr/xpg4/bin/tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' > AＢⓒ𝚍ⓔＦGH𝙞JK𝚕ⓜNOＰＱⓡSTUⓥＷⓧＹZ > $ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | /usr/xpg6/bin/tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' > AＢⓒ𝚍ⓔＦGH𝙞JK𝚕ⓜNOＰＱⓡSTUⓥＷⓧＹZ > $ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | /usr/xpg6/bin/tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' > AＢⓒ𝚍ⓔＦGH𝙞JK𝚕ⓜNOＰＱⓡSTUⓥＷⓧＹZ LOL patch looks good BTW cheers, Pádraig.
