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From: | Johannes Meixner |
Subject: | Re: Dealing with character ranges in grep |
Date: | Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:19:33 +0200 (CEST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) |
Hello, On Jun 16 15:51 Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Johannes Meixner wrote:Again: I do not care if this or that special feature is supported or not because I think that consistent behaviour has topmost priority.Do you prefer "consistent behavior of regexp in all applications across the whole distribution" or "consistent behavior of (GNU) grep (sed,...) across all distributions"?
glibc does not provide consistent behavior. With glibc one gets unexpected inconsistent behavior depeding on the locale. Even if the glibc behavior could be called "exact defined" it does not mean that it is consistent from the user's point of view. It is not a consistent behavior when all applications across the whole distribution do the same unexpected nonsense in an exact defined way. Perhaps such kind of behavior is "correct" from a strict technical point of view - but at the same time it can be plain wrong from a normal user's point of view. Guess which point of view I prefer... Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer
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