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Re: Bash case-modifying word expansions and locales
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash case-modifying word expansions and locales |
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Sat, 06 Jul 2013 20:17:30 -0400 |
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On 7/2/13 7:58 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> Characters with diacritical marks are not affected.
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> I get the same result in ISO-8859-1:
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> imadev:~$ x='fóo'; echo "${x^^}"
> FóO
On the systems I'm looking at, that is neither a multibyte character (so
you can't convert it to a whar_t and use towupper) nor one that `works'
with islower or toupper. I'm not sure what else should happen in this
case.
Chet
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