Re: Bash removes unrequested characters in bracket expressions (not a range).

[Bize Ma]

Chet Ramey (<chet.ramey@case.edu>) wrote:

> On 11/24/18 2:32 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> >> But IMO locale collation should not be used for an explicit list.
> >
> > Collation order is used for each individual character in a bracket
> > expression when compared against the string, as posix specifies.
>

Yes, values resulting from a glob expansion should be compared with strcoll.

How many characters should there be in a range like [0-0] ?
Or to be more precise: in a [0] bracket expression? one?

If I were you, I would file a bug report with Debian against wcscoll.
>

And I would be told that wcscoll is doing what the collation file 14651 is
telling it to do.

And, that in any case, that file has been updated in glib2.8 anyway.


> It returns 0 (equal) for L"٠" and L"0" without setting errno. That's
> clearly a problem with wcscoll (if the character isn't valid in the current
> locale) or the locale definition.
>

Both characters collate to the same position as I have already explained.

I don't follow you about what you mean with:
*(if the character isn't valid in the current locale).*