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Re: tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' -- misaligned construct
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' -- misaligned construct |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:15:02 +0000 |
On Jan 5, 2008 11:34 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 5285d51..5b1b366 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*-
> outline -*-
>
> * Noteworthy changes in release 6.? (????-??-??) [?]
>
> +** Bug fixes
> +
> + tr's case conversion would fail in a locale with differing numbers
> + of lower case and upper case characters. E.g., this would fail:
> + env LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
AIUI, that should be en_US.iso8859-1.
James.