Re: Additional feature for the seq command

[Axel Liljencrantz]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Axel Liljencrantz <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > This is an excellent question. I'm glad you asked, since I've given
> > it a fair bit of thought. It might seem like a good idea to use the
> > character ordering of the current locale, so you can generate
> > sequences with all the strange characters of your locale in them. My
> > seq patch is not implemented that way. It outputs the ASCII sequence.
>
> What about EBCDIC hosts?  The letters are not required to be consecutive.
> Also, what about non-latin letters or multi-byte characters?

Are there any character sets where coreutils is actually _used_ where
a-z are not consecutive?

As to non-latin and multibyte, I only have use for doing sequences of
letters from the english alphabet, and that is what I implemented.
Please note that I am swedish myself, and the swedish language has
three extra characters in addition to those used in the english
language. I see very little reason for incorporating these characters
in sequences.

If people have a genuine need for localization, I am willing to fix
my implementation to handle braindead characer sets like EBDIC as
well as provide localized versions. It should not be that hard, as
long as you stay away from high UCS4 planes. (Famous last words...)
It's just that I don't see the use of it. If you want to reject this
feature because of missing localization, I would at least want to
have a list of reasonable real-world use-cases of automatically
generated localised character sequences.


>
> Andreas.
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