Bug#590130: texinfo: texi2dvi egrep warning for bad regexp char range

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

severity 590130 normal
merge 590130 584191
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On 24.07.10 Kevin Ryde (user42@zip.com.au) wrote:

Hi,

> Package: texinfo
> Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-5
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/bin/texi2dvi
> 
> Running texi2dvi with LANG=en_US gives a warning message from egrep.
> For example an empty dummy input,
> 
>     touch foo.texi
>     LANG=en_US texi2dvi foo.texi
> 
> prints
> 
>     egrep: Invalid range end
> 
Already reported -> merging.

> Perhaps it should be A-Za-z, or "$EGREP -i" insensitive and then A-Z.
> 
I don't really understand the code hence I can't tell if that A-Za-z
is the correct fix, but I suspect it.

H.
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