Re: Case insensitivity seems to ignore lower bound of interval

[Davide Brini]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:43:52 +0100 Davide Brini <address@hidden> wrote:

> > $ echo 'ijklmnopqr'| grep "[r-z]"
> > ijklmnopqr
> > $ echo 'ijklmnopqr'| grep "[R-Z]"
> 
> This is expected, since "[R-Z]" does NOT match "r" in the locales under
> discussion. But nonetheless, you are right that grep seems to behave
> differently, although I was almost sure I had seen it show the same
> behavior at some point; I may be misremembering.

It looks like 2.5.4 was doing it, but not 2.7, so something probably
changed in between:

$ echo 'ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' | \grep '[R-Z]'
ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

(the above using 2.5.4)

-- 
D.