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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 20:15:21 -0700 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
On 05/21/2012 05:42 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Only in POSIX 1992 or in the C locale. In POSIX 2001 and POSIX 2008, and non-C locales, [A-Z] is explicitly undefined,
============== ONLY under POSIX... You may not believe this, but there are other standards than POSIX. More than one distro and company claims unicode compliance, to V6.x. Any programs or collections that do claim compat, need to adhere to the stricter of the standards, which is Unicode, in this case. POSIX only applies if you are going for the bottom of the barrel in this case.
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