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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org>
To: Jose Lima <jose.lima@charter.net>
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On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 04:20:21PM -0500, Jose Lima wrote:
> I use:
> 
> echo "$Z" | tr '[a-z' '[A-Z]'

This would be a lower case to upper case and would expose the same
problem. And a closing bracket is missing also. Don't know what the 
$Z should mean in your example.

In my example echo Z served as feeding a 'Z'  to the tr pipe.
But the problem is solved. As Kris suspected and someone else explained
it is a locale issue.

One should indeed use :lower: :upper: keywords. Or set the locale
accordingly for old shell scripts to work correctly.


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