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| From: | Linda Walsh |
| Subject: | Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z? |
| Date: | Mon, 21 May 2012 12:19:26 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 |
Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:36:35AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
For instance, on HP-UX 10.20, in the en_US.iso88591 locale:
A a ... B b
Meanwhile, on Debian 6.0, in the en_US.iso88591 locale:
a A ... b B
As you can see, the two en_US.iso88591 implementations are not the same.
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Great!...
So which is correct?
Anyone wanting to reference an upper or lower case range
[a-z] or [A-Z], is gonna hurt from this.
My OS uses "en_US.UTF-8".
You'd think unicode would have something to say about collation
order that wouldn't allow such randomness, but maybe not.
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