sed 3.02 and locales (patch included)

[Matthias Kilian]

Hi!

The character classes in sed don't work correctly.

Example:

$ echo 'ä' | LC_ALL=de_DE sed 's/[[:alpha:]]/&&/'
ä

Note that, in the german locale, 'ä' is a letter, so the correct output
would be 'ää'.

Here's the most simple bug fix:

--- ../sed-3.02/sed/sed.c       Fri Jul  3 03:06:26 1998
+++ ./sed/sed.c Sat Aug 24 17:25:31 2002
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
 # include <sys/types.h>
 #endif
+#include "locale.h"
 #include "regex-sed.h"
 #include "getopt.h"
 #include "basicdefs.h"
@@ -128,6 +129,8 @@
   int opt;
   flagT bad_input;     /* If this variable is non-zero at exit, one or
                           more of the input files couldn't be opened. */
+
+  setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
 
   POSIXLY_CORRECT = (getenv("POSIXLY_CORRECT") != NULL);
 #ifdef STUB_FROM_RX_LIBRARY_USAGE


Regards,
        Kili