Il 26/06/2013 16:15, Pádraig Brady ha scritto: >>> > > This is why I started the Campaign For Rational Range Interpretation, >>> > > now part of gawk and I believe in the most recent grep also, which >>> > > returns us to the sane days of yesteryear, where [a-z] got only >>> > > lowercase >>> > > letters and [A-Z] got only uppercase ones. >> > >> > The next version of bash will have a shell option to enable this behavior. >> > It's in the development snapshots if anyone wants to try it out now. > So what about setting globasciiranges on by default? > There is a backwards compat issue, but it's probably > less of a problem than having inconsistent handling > of these ranges between different systems, and different > tools like grep, gawk, sed, etc... > To me it seems best to at least be consistent with > each other, and with the intent of POSIX >= 2001.
I still believe that there is no place other than the glibc locale descriptions where this can be fixed. The last thing the user wants is to have a sed script that grows too much and breaks when they switch to gawk (or vice versa). Paolo
