bug#11621: questionable locale sorting order (especially as related to char ranges in REs)

2012-06-06 Thread Linda A. Walsh
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/04/2012 06:03 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/03/2012 11:13 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Within in the past few years, use of ranges in RE's has become unreliable due to some locale changes sorting their native character sets such that

bug#11621: questionable locale sorting order (especially as related to char ranges in REs)

2012-06-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/04/2012 06:03 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/03/2012 11:13 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Within in the past few years, use of ranges in RE's has become unreliable due to some locale changes sorting their native character sets such that aAbByYzZ (vs. 'C' ordering

bug#11621: questionable locale sorting order (especially as related to char ranges in REs)

2012-06-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Within in the past few years, use of ranges in RE's has become unreliable due to some locale changes sorting their native character sets such that aAbByYzZ (vs. 'C' ordering ABYZabyz). Additionally many distro's have switched to UTF-8 resulting in localizations like en_GB.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8,

bug#11621: questionable locale sorting order (especially as related to char ranges in REs)

2012-06-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/03/2012 11:13 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Within in the past few years, use of ranges in RE's has become unreliable due to some locale changes sorting their native character sets such that aAbByYzZ (vs. 'C' ordering ABYZabyz). Additionally many distro's have switched to UTF-8 resulting in

bug#11621: questionable locale sorting order (especially as related to char ranges in REs)

2012-06-03 Thread Linda A. Walsh
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/03/2012 11:13 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Within in the past few years, use of ranges in RE's has become unreliable due to some locale changes sorting their native character sets such that aAbByYzZ (vs. 'C' ordering ABYZabyz). There seems to be a problem in when a user