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

[Tim Waugh]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 02:09:22PM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:

> I don't know if there would be problems or if there wouldn't be, but
> the code doing this can't be naive and just do
> 
>       if (ignoring case) {
>               buffer[i++] = '[';
>               buffer[i++] = c;
>               buffer[i++] = toupper(c);
>               buffer[i++] = ']';
>       }
> 
> It has to be somewhat smarter. 

Yes, I should hope it would be!

> Also, UTF-8 isn't the only multibyte
> encoding that GLIBC and thus GNU can handle...

I was giving an example of a multibyte encoding in which mixed length
characters in a class works.

Tim.
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