Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z?

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/27/13 8:11 AM, Johannes Meixner wrote:

> I do not care too much which kind of locale specific ordering
> or collating or regex behaviour is actually implemented
> as long as it works consistently in grep, gawk, sed, bash,...

This is Arnold's goal.  And I would add to it that we need the different
programs to work consistently across different platforms.  I, for one,
am interested in platforms other than Linux.

Chet

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