tr is on the ast l18n todo list
what locale is your example?

btw, I tried this on linux and solaris

LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 /usr/bin/tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' <<<$'a\303\274z'

($'\303\274' is UTF-8 lower case u-umlaut)
and got lower case u-umlaut on the output

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:50:42 +0200 Cedric Blancher wrote:
> I saw a report today that AST tr from ast-open 2010-07-01 on 64bit
> AMD64 does not grok German umlauts or other characters which are not
> singlebyte:
> printf 'ÖÄÜ\n' | ./tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
> This prints gibberish.

> Ced
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