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Re: Uppercase string: broken tr?
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Uppercase string: broken tr? |
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Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:45:16 +0200 |
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Bob Proulx wrote:
> But sed and tr and other utilities just use the locale data provided
> on the system by glibc among other places. These programs are table
> driven by tables that are not part of these programs. This is why
> locale problems are global problems across the entire system of
> programs such as grep, sed, awk, tr, etc. or anything else that uses
> the locale data.
The glibc locale data for 'ABÇ' has been correct in all locales since 2000,
and is covered by glibc's testsuite. Before blaming glibc, you should make
up a standalone test program that shows the glibc problem.
Bruno