Inspired by this old Stack Overflow question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19765610/when-does-locale-affect-rs-regular-expressions
I was wondering why this is TRUE:
Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "et_EE")
grepl("[A-Z]", "T")
TRE's documentation at
<https://laurikari.net/tre/documentation/regex-syntax/> says that a
range "is shorthand for the full range of characters between those two
[endpoints] (inclusive) in the collating sequence".
Yet, T is *not* between A and Z in the Estonian collating sequence:
sort(LETTERS)
[1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "H" "I" "J" "K" "L" "M" "N" "O" "P"
"Q" "R" "S"
[20] "Z" "T" "U" "V" "W" "X" "Y"
I realize that this may be a question about TRE rather than about R
*per se* (FWIW the grepl() result is also TRUE with `perl = TRUE`, so
the question also applies to PCRE), but I'm wondering if anyone has any
insights ... (and yes, I know that the correct answer is "use [:alpha:]
and don't worry about it")
(In contrast, the ICU engine underlying stringi/stringr says "[t]he
characters to include are determined by Unicode code point ordering" - see
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76365426/does-stringrs-regex-engine-translate-a-z-into-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz/76366163#76366163
for links)
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