[email protected] writes: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 05:43:21PM +1300, Guy Thornley wrote: > > This is just wrong, on every single level I think of, this is WRONG. > > I can't tell if locales are insanely buggy or insane by design,
Mostly, I'd say they're insane by design, and that the POSIX spec that requires the shell to make [A-Z] unpredictable and useless is similarly insane. > The only way I've found to get sane behavior in the shell is LC_COLLATE=C Yep, definitely a good unbreak-me option for one's personal settings. Another alternative for scripts and the like is to say [[:upper:]] instead of [A-Z]. It takes more than twice as many characters, which sucks, but at least it's predictable. It also includes non-ASCII upper-case letters, though, which may or may not be a good thing in any particular situation. -- Aaron Crane
