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Re: Uppercase string: broken tr?


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: Uppercase string: broken tr?
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:45:16 +0200
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Bob Proulx wrote:
> But sed and tr and other utilities just use the locale data provided
> on the system by glibc among other places.  These programs are table
> driven by tables that are not part of these programs.  This is why
> locale problems are global problems across the entire system of
> programs such as grep, sed, awk, tr, etc. or anything else that uses
> the locale data.

The glibc locale data for 'ABÇ' has been correct in all locales since 2000,
and is covered by glibc's testsuite. Before blaming glibc, you should make
up a standalone test program that shows the glibc problem.

Bruno





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