On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:58:09PM +0100, Martin wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > >tr uses the collation sequence when expanding ranges, so the real > >problem is that the lowercase range "s-w" expands to "s??tu????????vw", and > >the uppercase range "S-W" expands to "STU????????VW", which is a smaller > >set. > > > >An alternative would be to use "tr stuvw STUVW" or "tr stu????????vw > >STU????????VW". > > My real problem is that I could not figure out why ffmpeg-devel did not > compile with MPEG-support, than I found this in its config.h: > > #define CONFIG_OGGWORBIS_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_OGGWORBIS_DECODER 1 > #define CONFIG_OGGUHEORA_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_OGGUHEORA_DECODER 1 > #define CONFIG_YWID_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_MPEG1WIDEO_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_MPEG2WIDEO_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_RW10_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_RW20_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_MSMPEG4W1_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_MSMPEG4W2_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_MSMPEG4W3_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_XMW1_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_XMW2_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_SWQ1_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_PGM????W_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_H??FF????W_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_FFWH??FF_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_ASW1_ENCODER 1 > #define CONFIG_ASW2_ENCODER 1 > > etc. etc. > > I guess I have to set root user back to "C" locale. :( > I can imagine that many people are using "tr a-z A-Z" > (or similar) in configuration-scripts.
There is a PR about this that contains a patch you could try. However, I don't know what other surprises may be lurking with non-C locales, and I need to schedule a full package build to find out. Kris
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