[Gllug] Keyboard Oddity

[Stuart Sears]

Nix wrote:
> On 3 May 2008, Stephen Nelson-Smith spake thusly:
>> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> 
> Look out for this. It has (what are to me) extremely conuterintuitive
> effects on e.g. ranges in regular expressions: for example [a-m] now
> includes the capital letters B through M as well.

Actually, IIRC, A through L.
AIUI UTF ordering is aAbBcCdDeE etc

To avoid having to worry about this I have resigned myself to using
[:upper:] and [:lower:] (etc) for regex patterns these days.


Stuart
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