Re: Additional feature for the seq command

[Axel Liljencrantz]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Axel Liljencrantz <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > As to non-latin and multibyte, I only have use for doing sequences of
> > letters from the english alphabet, and that is what I implemented.
>
> Your version will happily accept non-ASCII letters as start or end point,
> as long as they are single-byte.

*Doh*

I missed the fact that seq sets the locale. I used isupper||islower
to check if the character is a letter, which should do the right
thing in the C locale. My bad.



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