Re: Dealing with character ranges in grep

[Paolo Bonzini]

>   In principle, I'm all for this, but in practice, I'm going to leave gawk's
>   code alone for now (there's always 4.1 :-).

As long as --posix is not affecting the choice, that's fine.  However,
please make sure that compiling gawk --without-included-regex works
(it should go without saying)!

>   I do think it's worth taking this up with Uli, but that can be pursued
>   separately.  In the worst case, RE_RANGES_IGNORE_LOCALES might be an
>   acceptable addition if he (or the other maintainers) don't want to move
>   off the current way of doing things.

No, I think he would refuse it over his dead body and I agree with him. :)

But we do have control over gnulib, and the current choice there
already doesn't match glibc's (strcoll-order doesn't always match
glibc's collation equivalent ordering), so there's good reason to
switch at least gnulib.

Paolo