tag 440813 moreinfo thanks On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 04:15:05PM +0300, Petteri Pajunen wrote: > Package: grep > Version: 2.5.1.ds2-6 > > On my amd64 debian box using locale > fi_FI.UTF-8 (all LC_XXX variables set to fi_FI.UTF-8 as well as LANG) grep > fails to handle character ranges correctly. For example, the first grep is > wrong but the second works correctly: > $ echo "w" | grep "[a-z]" > $ echo "a" | grep "[a-z]" > a Are you sure this is not the normal problem of character ranges not being portable except within the C locale? The common example is that [a-z] might actually mean aAbBcCdDeE...z, which is often not what's expected, since it both includes capital letters and misses "Z". I don't know what fi locale looks like..
The typical solution is to either use [[:alpha:]] or just use: |LC_ALL=C grep '...' Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
