WARNING: potato has horrible broken locales

2000-09-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, Some time ago I discoverd a problem with sort (from textutils). It doesn't work for me :(. Maintainger of textutils package wrote me that is problem only with my (pl_PL) locale. After that he discovered that even en_AU locale is broken. This bug (#69544) has been reassigned to libc6. Today

Re: WARNING: potato has horrible broken locales

2000-09-04 Thread Peter Makholm
Mirek Kwasniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today I've trying (in bash): ls /dev/tty[a-z]0 and answer has unexpected /dev/ttyI0 and /dev/ttyS0 followed by /dev/tty[a-z]0 entries. I've seen this comming up a lot of places the past few months. It looks like somebody wants to redefine [a-c]

Re: WARNING: potato has horrible broken locales

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 04 Sep 2000, Peter Makholm wrote: handling of [a-z] discussion snipped ls /dev/tty[[:lower:]]0 Ugh. Whatever happened to lazy unix users? a-z is a lot easier to type than [:lower:] . I'd find it a lot more reasonable if [A-Z] was interpreted as [A-Za-z]. Next step will be renaming ls

Re: WARNING: potato has horrible broken locales

2000-09-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:50:07PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: [...] It will break scripts, but it doesn't seem like anyone cares about that (Ohhh, I imagine there is a major flamer war going on somewhere). The future proof and locale portable way to do the above is: ls /dev/tty[[:lower:]]0