Re: bug in date command

[Pádraig Brady]

Prog piR wrote:
> date +%^B gives the month in capital letters
> 
> but in french august is "août", and the accentued letter is not capitalized
> 
> date +%^B gives AOûT instead of AOÛT

Nor does tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' support multibyte chars either,
I'll add that to the list of multibyte stuff I need to look at.

> In addition, is there any option to have lowercase ?

The ^ and # flags are GNU extensions.
I guess for consistency we could add lower.

cheers,
Pádraig.