[Gllug] Keyboard Oddity

[Nix]

On 4 May 2008, Stuart Sears said:

> 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

You see? I get it wrong anyway. :)

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

That works fine until you need parts of that range. :/

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