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On 04/05/2011 10:20 AM, Jim Garrison wrote: >> POSIX states that range expressions (such as [A-Z]) are undefined in >> any >> locale except C; and some locales (like en_US.UTF-8) happen to treat A- >> B >> as AaB, A-b as AaBb, and so forth (that is, they collate >> case-insensitively). >> > > Interesting. I assumed it had to do with collation, but curiously, on Fedora > 10 I get different results: Not all en_US.UTF-8 locale implementations are created equal. Some implementations of that locale have taken additional measures to make collation vs. range computation try to behave saner. > I'm confused. Is Fedora 10 wrong? Not necessarily wrong, just different. Which is why POSIX states that outside of the C locale, range expressions are non-portable. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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