"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 5, 2008 11:34 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS >> index 5285d51..5b1b366 100644 >> --- a/NEWS >> +++ b/NEWS >> @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- >> outline -*- >> >> * Noteworthy changes in release 6.? (????-??-??) [?] >> >> +** Bug fixes >> + >> + tr's case conversion would fail in a locale with differing numbers >> + of lower case and upper case characters. E.g., this would fail: >> + env LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' > > AIUI, that should be en_US.iso8859-1.
Thanks for mentioning that. Can you point to a reference, or do you know of a system on which that works but the other doesn't? I chose the name from the output of "locales -a". _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils