Re: [bug-grep] Re: grep: -i option not working i cronjobs

[Elliott Hughes]

On Nov 14, 2004, at 12:25, Aharon Robbins wrote:

> > i think the kind of thing Aharon was thinking of was something like 
> > the
> > character ß (Latin small letter sharp s) in de_DE (as opposed to
> > de_CH), which has no upper-case form, and would be the two 
> > *characters*
> > "SS".
>
> No, it was some issue with Turkish, I think lower case "i" is one byte
> but the uppercase is a single, multibyte character.  Or vice versa, but
> something along those lines.

ssh! you're spoiling your point! ;-)

i don't speak Turkish, but i think there's something like that to do 
with their dotless i. but as Tim pointed out, it doesn't matter if your 
character class is a *character* class rather than a byte class.

i think the sharp s problem is worse, but since everyone seems to get 
it wrong, it's perhaps not that important.

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