Re: Dealing with character ranges in grep

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/09/2011 11:33 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I like the idea.
> However a potential sticking point is the equivalence class (e.g., using
> [=e=] to match "e" as well as accented versions like é, è and ê).
> That is the one feature that you get with glibc, and that you would
> sacrifice when building --with-included-regex.

I agree.  It's up to distros to choose, of course.  That would not 
change WRT what we have now.  Let's focus on "improving" (for some 
definition of improve) --with-included-regex, which is what we can control.

The important point is to understand that whatever you do, you need to 
think about the impact for both --with-included-regex and 
--without-included-regex, and you need to make sure that the solution 
works for both.

Paolo