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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 2021 12:04:26 +0200
From:      Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Helge Oldach <freebsd@oldach.net>
Subject:   Re: Confusion with grep & locale?
Message-ID:  <3924915.BRNeRiNLvY@walrus.pepperland>
In-Reply-To: <202108200903.17K93QN3091126@nuc.oldach.net>

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On Friday, August 20, 2021 11:03:26 AM CEST Helge Oldach wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm confused about the FreeBSD behaviour with respect to locale's
> and grep - specifically, it seems case sensitivity is not handled
> consistently when grepping character ranges. It looks to me like 11 and
> 13 are not behaving consistently however I'm unclear why.


It's not necessarily a bug, see here:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Ranges-and-Locales.html>;

"[...] that the 2008 standard had changed the definition of ranges, such that
outside the "C" and "POSIX" locales, the meaning of range expressions was
undefined."




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