Re: Bug#160932: bash: fileglobbing broken with LANG=sv_SE

[Chet Ramey <chet@po.case.edu>]

Matthias Klose wrote:

> Colin Watson writes:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:07:11PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >
> > > Tobias writes:
> > >
> > > > Attached is a small script that shows the difference between the too. 
> > > > Personally I think the tcsh is better sorted because of the difference 
> > > > between "A" and "a".
> > >
> > > bash's behaviour is different than tcsh, dash, zsh, ksh.
> > >
> > > bash --norc
> > > LANG=sv_SE
> > > power-post-setup.bmp
> > > ls: [A-Z][A-Z]*: No such file or directory
> > > ls: [A-Z][A-Z]*: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > all other shells don't show the file with the lowercase letter.
> > > reading bash(1)'s Environment section, one might think, that
> > > explicitely setting LC_CTYPE would help, but it does not:
> >
> > LC_COLLATE=C would be what makes the difference, I'd've thought?
> >
> >  $ export LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
> >  $ ls -d [A-Z][A-Z]*
> >  bin  debian  misc  mp3  public_html  src  tmp
> >  $ export LC_COLLATE=C
> >  $ ls -d [A-Z][A-Z]*
> >  ls: [A-Z][A-Z]*: No such file or directory
>
>
> ok, thanks. Any idea, why de_DE and sv_SE is different in the first
> case?

You're both right.  LC_COLLATE is the applicable environment variable,
and bash-2.05b misbehaves when LANG is assigned a value after one of the
LC_* variables.

The LANG precedence problem will be fixed in the next release.

Chet