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

[Jim Meyering]

"James Youngman" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2008 11:34 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>> index 5285d51..5b1b366 100644
>> --- a/NEWS
>> +++ b/NEWS
>> @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
>> outline -*-
>>
>>  * Noteworthy changes in release 6.? (????-??-??) [?]
>>
>> +** Bug fixes
>> +
>> +  tr's case conversion would fail in a locale with differing numbers
>> +  of lower case and upper case characters.  E.g., this would fail:
>> +  env LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
>
> AIUI, that should be en_US.iso8859-1.

Thanks for mentioning that.
Can you point to a reference, or do you know of a system on which that
works but the other doesn't?  I chose the name from the output of
"locales -a".