Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z?
Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
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On 6/26/13 10:15 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 5/21/12 3:42 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 5/21/12 3:27 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: >>> This is why I started the Campaign For Rational Range Interpretation, >>> now part of gawk and I believe in the most recent grep also, which >>> returns us to the sane days of yesteryear, where [a-z] got only lowercase >>> letters and [A-Z] got only uppercase ones. >> >> The next version of bash will have a shell option to enable this behavior. >> It's in the development snapshots if anyone wants to try it out now. > > So what about setting globasciiranges on by default? The plan is to eventually have it enabled by default, and I will add a configure option to build bash with it enabled by default, but there has to be a transition period. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/