Re: [bug #19977] Adding new function to grep

[Benno Schulenberg]

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Tariq Al-Omaireeni wrote:
> Regarding the bug  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19977> about
> grep and Diacritics, I think that this bug should be upgraded to
> POSIX level rather than writing a patch to grep. This will result
> in many advantages since it will resolve the problem in grep and
> other commands.
>
> 2- How to request that from POSIX?

Equivalence classes not working is not a deficiency of POSIX, but 
most probably of glibc.  Send a bug report to glibc and show them 
some examples from various languages.  For example:

$ touch ééé eee ëëë
$ ls [[=e=]]*
eee

Benno