On Wednesday 14 November 2007 21:37:46 Jan Kundrát wrote: > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > So on estonian locales those letters won't be included in [a-z] but > > they will be included in [:alpha:]. > > Actually that was exactly my point. If user had some funny locale that > has digits or dots in its [:alpha:], the ebuild wouldn't work as > desired, but it would rather strip valid stuff from the variable. But > that's probably pure sci-fi for now :).
[:alpha:] will never have digits or dots in it. It will, however, sometimes have funny letters in it. And [a-z] will not always have all ansi letters in it. -- Bo Andresen
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