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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:34:43 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tr tr.1
Message-ID:  <20040723113442.GA42827@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200407230544.i6N5i4xt029879@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200407230544.i6N5i4xt029879@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:44:04AM +0000, Tim J. Robbins wrote:
>     usr.bin/tr           tr.1 
>   Log:
>   Add a lengthy discussion of why "tr a-z A-Z" and "tr A-Z a-z" are not the
>   right way to perform case-conversion.

For completeness you should mention another possibility to handle A-Z well 
without replacing anything in existen scripts: set LC_ALL=C before 
calling.

-- 
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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