https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2002-12-04 18:52 -------
No doubt that some languages in the world mix different variations of their
"alphabet" symbols - arabian languages use different glyphs when an alpha
char is at the start or end of the word, so that many alpha chars have
three glyphs with three unicode points assigned. But that's something a
bit of speaking "elsewhere".

However, in european languages the lowercase and uppercase are different
and announce different words. More so, this bug severely affects the
usage of latin characters in the unix filesystem which is case-sensitive
for filenames and directorynames - this bug boils down to the fact that
the behaviour of bash scripts depends on the locale!! You can not transfer
scripts between users or computers since the behaviour has become
undefined!!

Note that the current behaviour in mandrake 9.0 is not present in any
earlier distribution like 8.2, it is not present in any other linux
distribution, and it is not present in the current cooker version. 
Somehow a bug got dropped in that does not present itself in the two
$LANG=french variants, but in 10 of 11 $LANG=german variants - yes,
it is not even static across the same lang family, and surely ALL 
latin.writing variants should use the same case-range set, just as 
it is  done in all other versions of unixish systems to exist.



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