Re: tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' -- misaligned construct

[James Youngman]

On Jan 5, 2008 9:01 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> > That machine is running in an ISO-8859 locale on openSUSE 11.0 FACTORY:

I can reproduce the problem on Debian (Lenny; version 2.7-3 of the
locales package with LANG=en_US.iso-8859-1).

> That locale definition has 3 more upper-case letters than lower-case,

I think it's the other way around; more lower than upper case letters
(there's a small error in the ternary conditional in the code you
posted).   In the Latin-1 locale I mention above, the difference is
only two characters:

Char 181 µ: lower case.  Equivalents: upper case equivalent is 181 µ: SAME
Char 223 ß: lower case.  Equivalents: upper case equivalent is 223 ß: SAME

James.