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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 21:48:21 -0400 |
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On 7/1/13 11:36 PM, Tomasz Tomasik wrote:
> Hello.
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> I have problem with case-modifying word expansions in bash.
> http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/pe#case_modification
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> bash -c 'foo="żółw"; echo ${foo^^}'
> żółW
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> Characters with diacritical marks are not affected.
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> However, it works in zsh:
> zsh -c 'foo="żółw"; echo ${(U)foo}'
> ŻÓŁW
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of bash. The
problem is int-char truncation in lib/sh/casemod.c:sh_modcase().
Chet
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