Re: {A..z} brace expansion in Bash 3

[Chet Ramey]

> Chet Ramey wrote:
> > I will take a look, but it would help to know exactly which locale.
> 
> Sorry, I should have mentioned.
> 
> It is en_GB with ISO-8859-1. 
> 
> This condition evaluates to true so testing isalpha() may not be
> entirely the right way. It probably comes before D in any collation
> sequence resulting in it ascending.
> [[ Ä = [[:alpha:]] ]]

I fixed it.  It was a problem with signed/unsigned characters.  Unless
explicitly cast to (unsigned char), chars with values > 128 will be sign-
extended to negative numbers when assigned to an int variable.

Chet

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