Re: regex and case-fold-search problem

[Andreas Schwab]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

|> On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:51:46AM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
|> > I mean that the concept of character range itself is not good.  A character
|> > code is just an identifier of a character.  We usually don't think about "a
|> > range of identifiers" (e.g. "symbols in the range between t and nil" is
|> > nonsense).
|> 
|> Yeah, but character ranges make perfect sense in many local contexts.
|> E.g., [0-9], or [<0>-<9>] where <0> and <9> are `wide' digits from some
|> character set.

What does [A-Z] mean in EBCDIC?  [0-9] is a special case, because ISO C
requires that 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 are consecutive in the execution
character set.  But in many locales the collating sequence <A> - <Z>
contains more that just the upper case letters from the English alphabet.

Andreas.

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