In article <mailman.8905.1347655706.855.bug-b...@gnu.org>, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: >Marcel Giannelia wrote: >> locale-dependent [a-c] suggests to me that the software should be >> changed to just do what people expect, especially since nothing is >> really lost by doing so. > >I know that some projects are doing just that. I don't know the plans >for bash. I would like to see it addressed in libc so that it would >be uniform across all projects. But that isn't likely to happen. But >if libc isn't going to do it then it is beneficial if projects do it >themselves outside of libc. Eventually in the future when libc >addresses the problem then those hacks can be removed.
Hi Bob. You are ssuming here that everyone uses GLIBC. Not so. The projects that are dong something about it* will have to maintain their own code anyway. (More's the pity.) Arnold * I take credit here, having started it in gawk and pushed grep into it :-) I think sed will eventually pick it up, and bash too. Karl Berry coined the lovely phrase "Rational Range Interpretation". The campaign for Rational Ragne Interpretation is in full swing! :-) -- Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 50 729-7545 D.N. Shimshon 99785 ISRAEL
