At Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:01:25 +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [Problems with [:lower:] and [:upper:] in UTF-8 locale] > > > It should be fixed in sid glibc 2.3.1, please check. > > I have now installed the latest versions of theses programs: > > ii bash 2.05b-3 The GNU Bourne Again SHell > ii coreutils 4.5.7-1 The GNU core utilities > ii grep 2.5.1-2 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep > ii locales 2.3.1-14 GNU C Library: National Language (locale) da > ii libc6 2.3.1-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone > > The following statements work as expected: > > $ grep [[:lower:]] > $ grep [[:upper:]] > $ case ... in [[:lower:]]) ... esac # bash > $ case ... in [[:upper:]]) ... esac # bash > > The following don't work with non-ASCII characters when LC_CTYPE is > set to de_DE.UTF8 > > $ tr [:lower:] [:upper:] > > Using "tr [:alpha:] '-'" I found out that non-ASCII letters (valid > letters in the de_DE locale) are not even recognized. In the > de_DE.ISO-8859-1 locale both statements work correctly. > > I don't know if this is related to this single program or can be > caused by problems in libc6 oder locales data. Please tell me if you > think that I should report to coreutils instead. > > So half the bug report is resolved,
Coreutils uses old regex engine, so tr is not ready for UTF-8. I think it's TODO item for coreutils/textutils. I reassign this bug to coreutils. -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
