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Re: Patch to fix /[A-Z]/ and internationalization bug
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Patch to fix /[A-Z]/ and internationalization bug |
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Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:10:37 -0700 |
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According to Sam Trenholme on 11/2/2006 5:46 PM:
> Arnold (or whoever),
>
> I am willing to sign over this patch that I feel is
> the best solution to the problems with /[A-Z]/ and
> case sensitivity in non-C locales.
While your idea may have merit, it goes against what POSIX requires, and
you would be breaking more than you fix, in light of what has been
standardized. It is better for people to get used to writing /[:upper:]/
instead of /[A-Z]/, because then it will be portable to all POSIX
implementations of awk, rather than just your patched version of gawk.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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