Re: Case insensitivity seems to ignore lower bound of interval

[John Cowan]

Aharon Robbins scripsit:

> I do agree that the behavior is suprising, disconcerting, undesirable,
> and so on.  For this reason, the upcoming version of gawk translates
> ranges of the form [d-h] into '[defgh]' before compiling the regular
> expression.

Alas, that means that in a locale where e-acute sorts after e, the regex
[d-h] will not match it.  You can't have everything at once, but it
would be good to have a switch to turn this behavior on and off.

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