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Re: Dealing with character ranges in grep


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
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