Re: Additional feature for the seq command

[Andreas Schwab]

Axel Liljencrantz <address@hidden> writes:

> This is an excellent question. I'm glad you asked, since I've given
> it a fair bit of thought. It might seem like a good idea to use the
> character ordering of the current locale, so you can generate
> sequences with all the strange characters of your locale in them. My
> seq patch is not implemented that way. It outputs the ASCII sequence.

What about EBCDIC hosts?  The letters are not required to be consecutive.
Also, what about non-latin letters or multi-byte characters?

Andreas.

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