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Re: Case insensitivity seems to ignore lower bound of interval
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John Cowan |
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Re: Case insensitivity seems to ignore lower bound of interval |
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Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:40:21 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Aharon Robbins scripsit:
> I do agree that the behavior is suprising, disconcerting, undesirable,
> and so on. For this reason, the upcoming version of gawk translates
> ranges of the form [d-h] into '[defgh]' before compiling the regular
> expression.
Alas, that means that in a locale where e-acute sorts after e, the regex
[d-h] will not match it. You can't have everything at once, but it
would be good to have a switch to turn this behavior on and off.
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