On Jun 25 15:38, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > Your locale is zh_CN.UTF-8. What you're expecting is only guaranteed > > in the C locale: > > I'm not quite sure it applies here. I'm using US English Windows 7. > > LANG = 'en_US.UTF-8' > > I get the same result: > > $ echo abcdeABCDE | sed -e 's/[B-D]/_/g' > ab__eA___E > > BUT: > > $ echo abcdeABCDE | LANG=C sed 's/[B-D]/_/g' > abcdeA___E > > This is very weird, indeed. > > OTOH, in Linux I have the same LANG setup, yet it does work > correctly: > > > echo $LANG > en_US.UTF-8 > > echo abcdeABCDE | sed -e 's/[B-D]/_/g' > abcdeA___E > > I believe that an en_US UTF-8 string representation for > "abcdeABCDE" is not any different from ASCII.
Wrong. Try this: $ sort a b c d e A B C D E <Ctrl-D> a A b B c C d D Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
