Re: WARNING: potato has horrible broken locales

[Mirek Kwasniak <mirek@zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:50:07PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
[...]
> It will break scripts, but it doesn't seem like anyone cares about
> that (Ohhh, I imagine there is a major flamer war going on
> somewhere). The future proof and locale portable way to do the above
> is:
> 
> ls /dev/tty[[:lower:]]0
> 
> On pandora I just did the following:
> $ touch a b c A B C
> $ echo [[:lower:]]
> a b c
> $ echo [[:upper:]]
> A B C
> $ echo [a-c]
> a b c
> $ 


Yes, you have unset|C|POSIX locale.

$ touch a b c A B C
$ echo [[:lower:]]
a b c
$ echo [[:upper:]]
A B C
$ export LC_ALL=pl_PL;
$ echo [a-c]
a A b B c
$ export LC_ALL=en_US;
$ echo [a-c]
a B b C c

:(

See what a wonderful sort (from bug my report #69544):

$ sort
a
b
 a
 b
,a
,b
#a
#b

gives:
 a
,a
#a
a
 b
,b
#b
b

Mirek


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