On 1/22/15 9:43 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
>
> (Debian unstable amd64)
>
> $ LC_ALL=tr_TR.UTF-8 bash -c 'typeset -l a; a=İ; echo $a' | hd
> 00000000 69 b0 0a |i..|
> 00000003
> $ a=İ LC_ALL=tr_TR.UTF-8 bash -c 'echo ${a,,}' | hd
> 00000000 69 b0 0a |i..|
> 00000003
>
> In Turkish locales on a GNU system at least, uppercase i is İ,
> not I. And lowercase I is ı, not i.
Thanks for the report, especially the example that showed bash's assumption
that the lowercase and uppercase versions of a letter have the same width.
I would not count on the above fact about Turkish locales being true across
all systems; it's not true on Mac OS X, for instance.
Chet
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