Re: [gawk] RE bug??

[Stephen Davies]

G'day Arnold.

I must admit that I do not know what the locale setup on my box is. I 
guess I shall have to investigate.

I run a Linux environment that has been evolving from source over the 
past 10-12 years and locale has never been an issue for me.

However, I just tried the same tests on a vanilla, out-of-the-box 
Mandrake system and got the same results.

It also seems strange to me that Bob's en_US should treat lower case 
letters as upper case. Doesn't sound right to me.

Cheers,
Stephen


On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 06:17 pm, you wrote:
> Do you have locales enabled on your system?  If it's not a Linux or
> Solaris system, then locale support is likely to be suboptimal.  That
> may explain why you're not seeing the behavior he's talking about.
> 
> Believe me, the locale stuff is weird, and things like A-Z can include
> lower case letters in the UTF locales.  I think it's like the #1 FAQ
> these days for gawk.  (Gawk is the only free awk that supports 
locales.
> Sometimes I think that's a bug and not a feature. :-)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Arnold
> 
> 

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