On 7/2/13 7:58 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> Characters with diacritical marks are not affected. > > I get the same result in ISO-8859-1: > > imadev:~$ x='fóo'; echo "${x^^}" > FóO
On the systems I'm looking at, that is neither a multibyte character (so you can't convert it to a whar_t and use towupper) nor one that `works' with islower or toupper. I'm not sure what else should happen in this case. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/