Bob Proulx wrote: > But sed and tr and other utilities just use the locale data provided > on the system by glibc among other places. These programs are table > driven by tables that are not part of these programs. This is why > locale problems are global problems across the entire system of > programs such as grep, sed, awk, tr, etc. or anything else that uses > the locale data.
The glibc locale data for 'AB�' has been correct in all locales since 2000, and is covered by glibc's testsuite. Before blaming glibc, you should make up a standalone test program that shows the glibc problem. Bruno -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
