Bug#214107: locales: en_US.UTF-8 treats [ as a space char

[Elmar Hoffmann <elho@elho.net>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2-8
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

See the following transcript:

elho@stranger:~$ echo '[' | LANG=C egrep '^[^[:space:]]+$'
[
elho@stranger:~$ echo '[' | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 egrep '^[^[:space:]]+$'
elho@stranger:~$ echo '[' | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 egrep '^[^ ]+$'
[
elho@stranger:~$ echo '[' | LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 egrep '^[^[:space:]]+$'
[
elho@stranger:~$

elmar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux stranger 2.4.21-grsecurity-1.9.10-evms-2.1.0 #1 Wed Jul 2 17:30:13 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.3.14     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.3.2-8]         2.3.2-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_US
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8@euro UTF-8, de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15, en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8


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