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Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z?
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z? |
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Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:15:02 +0200 |
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Il 01/07/2013 20:36, Aharon Robbins ha scritto:
> [ I know I'm going to regret this... ]
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>> `[a-z]' is case insensitive
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>> You are encountering problems with locales. POSIX mandates that `[a-z]'
>> uses the current locale's collation order -- in C parlance, that means
>> strcoll(3) instead of strcmp(3).
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> As of the 2008 standard, this is no longer true. Ranges are now
> implementation defined. This is what gives us the leeway to move to
> range interpretation not based on locales.
You're right. The documentation text is outdated. Thanks for pointing
it out!
Paolo