On Saturday 12 June 2004 01:10, you wrote:
> I reproduced the problem. My default locale is en_US.UTF-8.
>
> When I use:
>
> LC_ALL=en_US.iso-8859-8 egrep -n '[A-Z]'
>
> the lowercase letters are not matched.
>
> It is still mysterious to me why egrep (or grep) folds lowercase into
> uppercase when the locale is UTF-8.
>
A workaround (for the entire alphabet range, at least) is to use the POSIX
[:upper:] character class:
<<<
$ LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 grep -n '[[:upper:]]'
hello
A65
2:A65
ANC
3:ANC
>>>
But this may match uppercase letters with accents. (don't know - I haven't
tried yet).
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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