> Yesterday I noticed, that the UTF-8 encoding doesn't seem to be > correctly supported by the current locales package. I have problems > using the lower and upper case conversion. > > Here are two different ways to exploit this behaviour. In both cases > I used an=20 > "xterm -u8 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1"= > =20 > with LC_ALL=3Dde_DE.UTF-8 to test the programs. In this email I display > the umlaut characters in latin1, I will append the typescript with the > real utf-8 encoding of the characters. > > - Programs like tr (textutils 2.0-12): > > $ tr [:lower:] [:upper:] > oau=F6=E4=FC # the input > OAU=F6=E4=FC # the output > > The ASCII alphabetic characters are correctly transformed, the utf-8 > encoding umlauts are not. > > - The bash (2.05a-9): > $ for i in a A =E4 =C4; do case $i in [[:lower:]]) echo "$i is l"; esac; do= > ne > a is lc # the output > > The =E4 umlaut should also be output.
It should be fixed in sid glibc 2.3.1, please check. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
