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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:43:56 +0100
From:      Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: strange tr behaviour
Message-ID:  <1080290635.3663.2.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20040326085219.T24707@fw.reifenberger.com>
References:  <20040326085219.T24707@fw.reifenberger.com>

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V pá, 26. 03. 2004 v 09:00, Michael Reifenberger pí¹e:

> Hi,
> under -current with the following env settings:
> 	LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> 	LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> 	LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> using tr as follows I get:
> 
> # echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSUÚWXYÝ]

correct

> but:
> 
> # echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

correct

> AND:
> 
> # unsetenv LC_ALL
> # unsetenv LC_CTYPE
> # unsetenv LANG
> # echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

correct

> ?!?
> Anyone else?
> Anyone any clue?

Everything works as expected, what's the problem?

You can't abuse [a-z] [A-Z] for uppercasing of string.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
              <pav@FreeBSD.org>

Is this a dagger which I see before me, its handle towards my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

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