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Re: grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 bug report


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 bug report
Date: 26 Sep 2000 11:51:59 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7

> > $echo D | grep '[c-d]'
> > D
> > 
> > $echo D | grep '[d-e]'
> > 

This is almost certainly a problem with how his locale interprets
character ranges.  He should try setting the LC_ALL environment
variable to "C"; that should fix it.

By the way, Ulrich Drepper and I are trying to help fix this
misfeature of POSIX in the next POSIX revision.  It's slow going,
though.



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