Paul, may I ask you what you think about this?
| Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > Wow! Thanks! Could you give more details on the failure? This is to
| > include it in the Autoconf documentation:
|
| It expands the range into a collatable range, and there are more
| characters in the second range...
|
| This is what happens:
|
| $ echo a b | LC_COLLATE=sv_SE.ISO8859-1 tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'
| a Ã
|
| If you want to make this truly portable, you probably have to resort
| to `tr ABC... abc...'.
|
| > PS/ I don't understand what you meant with `aka *'.
|
| It's been called so many things by now (OSF/1, Digital UNIX, and
| Tru64), that it gets hard to write them all down. And they still
| haven't been able to come up with a name you can use.
|
| /Johan
I think for safety, it's better to turn off LC_COLLATE too (let it be
only to protect users' code), but I suspect you'll say we should not
use ranges with tr :)
