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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/tr
Correct me if I am wrong, but this is a bug to me. The result should
be 'ü', not 'Ü'.
piper:~> echo Ü | xxd -ps
c39c0a
piper:~> echo Ü | LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 sed -e 'y/[:upper:]/[:lower:]/' | xxd -ps
c39c0a
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.999.2-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.30.27-3 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
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> The sed "y" command does not support character classes
> (unlike tr); doing so would go against POSIX in ways that
> cannot be reconciled.
>
> Since both
>
> echo Bübü Übü | LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 sed 's/[[:lower:]]/X/g'
>
> and
>
> echo Bübü Übü | LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 sed 'y/Ü/ü/'
>
> should work in sed, this is not a bug in sed.
Thanks.
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