ah but you may have been thinking getconf function and not getconf command in that case doing it with the getconf function is probably the way to go
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:10:28 -0400 Glenn Fowler wrote: > locale(1) would be my first choice > but getonf(1) would be ok too > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:34:38 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Cedric Blancher > > <cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Request for enhancement: .sh.regex.available_character_class > > > > > > What do you think about adding a .sh.regex.available_character_class > > > array variable which contains the list of available wctype character > > > classes for the current locale? I know there is no API to get a list > > > from the OS but libast could probe well-known names and put only those > > > in the array for which wctype() turned a non-0 value. > > IMO it's better to let "getconf" handle that job because these are > > locale properties which are not limited to the shell. > > AFAIK we need two different "getconf" properties - one for regex > > character classes and one for |wctrans()| transformations. > > I did some digging... and it seems Solaris 11 supports the following > > transformations (beyond POSIX ; these are locale-dependant): > > -- snip -- > > tojhira > > tojisx0201 > > tojisx0208 > > tojkata > > tolower > > toupper > > -- snip -- > > ... Linux adds "totitle". > > Character classes (beyond POSIX ; these are locale-dependant) > > supported by Solaris 11 are: > > -- snip -- > > english > > gb > > ideogram > > jalpha > > jdigit > > jgen > > jgreek > > jhankana > > jhira > > jisx0201r > > jisx0208 > > jisx0212 > > jkanji > > jkata > > jparen > > jpunct > > jrussian > > jsci > > jspecial > > junit > > line > > number > > phonogram > > special > > wchar10 > > wchar11 > > wchar12 > > wchar13 > > wchar14 > > wchar15 > > wchar16 > > wchar17 > > wchar18 > > wchar19 > > wchar20 > > wchar21 > > wchar22 > > wchar23 > > wchar24 > > wchar6 > > wchar9 > > -- snip -- > > (note that some of these are errornously prefixed with "is" in some > > older Solaris versions). FreeBSD/OSX and Illumos add "rune" as extra > > class here. > > Glenn: What do you think about the idea of using "getconf" for this ? > > If you think this is OK then I can provide code who can test these > > "well-known" names (erm... including the "is"-prefix for character > > classes) for both (note that we cannot cache the values because they > > depend on LANG/LC_CTYPE/LC_ALL and IMO it's cheaper to probe the > > values each time "getconf" is called than trying to add more code for > > caching and tracking of the values of LANG/LC_CTYPE/LC_ALL). > > ---- > > Bye, > > Roland > > -- > > __ . . __ > > (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org > > \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer > > /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 > > (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list ast-developers@research.att.com https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
