mrosic (Vim Github Repository) <[email protected]> writes: > "\a" is an alphabetic character [A-Za-z] Unfortunately that doesn't > seem to include "ä" which makes Austrian sysadmins sad because they > don't have syntax highlighting for Log files in January due to that > error Note that for example echo -e "ä\na" | grep [a-z] will match > both lines because unlike vim, grep considers "ä" to be a part of > [a-z] which is exactly how it should be
That's a somewhat dangerous way of thinking. [a-z] is _not_ "all lowercase characters" in any definition. For example, "ž" isn't in a-z in most locales. In many locales, all but one of the basic 26 uppercase letters is in a-z (typically A is not included, since it is before A; occasionally this is reversed and Z is excluded instead). Certainly ä wouldn't be in a-z in Swedish. In this day and age it's really not "safe" to use ranges as character classes in normal locales (they're safe, as far as it goes, in the POSIX locale, but obviously won't include non-ASCII characters). It is irritating that [[:alpha:]] doesn't work with unicode characters, though. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
