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Re: range [A-Z] bug
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Eric Blake |
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Re: range [A-Z] bug |
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Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:10:56 -0600 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) |
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According to Toby Kelsey on 6/16/2006 6:02 AM:
> I discovered that the range pattern '[A-Z]*' matches the filename 'test'
> but not
> 'atest', which appears to be a bug.
Not a bug, but your setting of locales. Try repeating the test when
LC_ALL=C is in your environment, to see the difference. Some locales,
such as en_US.utf8, intentionally do case folding in ranges, so that [A-Z]
is interpreted as [AbBcC...zZ].
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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- range [A-Z] bug, Toby Kelsey, 2006/06/16
- Re: range [A-Z] bug,
Eric Blake <=