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Re: bug in date command
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: bug in date command |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:23:18 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
Prog piR wrote:
> date +%^B gives the month in capital letters
>
> but in french august is "août", and the accentued letter is not capitalized
>
> date +%^B gives AOûT instead of AOÛT
Nor does tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' support multibyte chars either,
I'll add that to the list of multibyte stuff I need to look at.
> In addition, is there any option to have lowercase ?
The ^ and # flags are GNU extensions.
I guess for consistency we could add lower.
cheers,
Pádraig.