Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:10:37 +0100 (CET) From: Tomas Pluskal <plusik@pohoda.cz> To: Dan Lukes <dan@obluda.cz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot compile stable Message-ID: <20021118100845.C7390-100000@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3DD8903F.1060702@obluda.cz>
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Thank you for this info. I will submit the PR. Perhaps 'make buildworld'
should automatically unset all LC_ variables, because it is not likely
that all these problems will soon be fixed..
Tomas Pluskal
> It's not character case sensitivity/insensitivity case. It's the
> "range" problem.
>
> The Czech order of characters is 'AaBbCc...Zz' (i skip the accented
> character - for real ordering see src/share/colldef/cs_CZ.ISO8859-2.src)
> - it is based on CSN (Czech national normative). It mean, the range
> [A-Z] contain both upper and lower letters (with exception of lower 'z'
> and accented Zz).
>
> We shall use the '[:upper:]' class instead as nobody knows what the
> hell of characters are contained within the X-Y type ranges.
>
> The correct coding for 'awk '/^[_A-Z]/ { print; }'' is 'awk
> '/^[_[:upper:]]/ { print; }''. You must be patient with our
> english-centristic coleagues - they aren't familiar with existence of
> other continents outside of north-america, but they are learning ... ;-)
>
> You should submit a PR (but there are uncountable incarnations of the
> same problem in src tree). In the meantime, you should use 'one true
> locale' only.
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