Chet Ramey wrote:
On 5/21/12 3:37 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:---- This is a prime example of Posix being stupid and bad for computer science. They take a deterministic behavior and define it to be non-deterministic and break 1000's of programs.Try being a little less English-centric. Collating order varies by language. Posix says that ranges work the way you are used to if you force the traditional ordering using the `C' or `Posix' locale. Take a deep breath and use LC_ALL=C in your scripts to avoid depending on whatever your OS uses as the default.
FWIW, I put LC_COLLATE='C' in my System startup scripts... So I'm NOT being bitten by this problem directly... I'm trying to figure out how the heck this got voted on in POSIX, to be a correct standard such that it would break current programs... POSIX is not supposed to be prescriptive -- but **descriptive**... I can't think of anywhere that a-z or A-Z would have included letters from the opposite case... so how did POSIX come to *prescribe* that this be the case... since I can't see that as being descriptive.
