On 09/01/2010 11:06 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Such a behavior conforms to POSIX, which explicitly
says that [A-Z] has unspecified behavior outside
the POSIX locale. (See POSIX 9.3.5 point 7 at
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_03_05>.)
Users invariably want the Emacs behavior, not the
grep behavior.
An easy sell. Good!
In fact, it might even be nice to preserve the locale-dependent existing
behavior of collating-element ranges for '[[.A.]-[.Z.]]', even while
changing the simpler [A-Z] to do the encoding-based range, so that a
rare user that really DID mean to get locale-dependent collation range
can still do so.
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