On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:44:44AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 23:32:19 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > I think we've now reached the agreement with Andrey that > > a more correct, safe, and portable [sic] construct would > > be "LC_ALL=C tr [:lower:] [:upper:]". It works the same > > in any non-broken operating system and with any locale. > > We need to say, construct for what? If for lower->upper replacing inside > ASCII only, "LC_ALL=C tr [a-z] [A-Z]" is most portable because some tr > implementations even not understand [:class:] but some other have SysV-ism > to specify ranges in the [], against what POSIX says. But I think that > "LC_ALL=C tr a-z A-Z" is better middle point here because not teach user > to incorrect syntax from the scripts. > Agreed. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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