Re: tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' -- misaligned construct

[James Youngman]

On Jan 5, 2008 11:34 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 5285d51..5b1b366 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
> outline -*-
>
>  * Noteworthy changes in release 6.? (????-??-??) [?]
>
> +** Bug fixes
> +
> +  tr's case conversion would fail in a locale with differing numbers
> +  of lower case and upper case characters.  E.g., this would fail:
> +  env LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

AIUI, that should be en_US.iso8859-1.

James.