Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/21/12 3:27 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote:

> This is why I started the Campaign For Rational Range Interpretation,
> now part of gawk and I believe in the most recent grep also, which
> returns us to the sane days of yesteryear, where [a-z] got only lowercase
> letters and [A-Z] got only uppercase ones.

The next version of bash will have a shell option to enable this behavior.
It's in the development snapshots if anyone wants to try it out now.

Chet
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