Re: [bug #32337] [:alnum:] dependance on locale is not well documented

[Reuben Thomas]

On 29 June 2011 07:30, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Fixed in commit 406ab56cdd977fbd05216392ac655dd7204a307a
>

I just noticed that for some reason I never attached my suggested
patch to the bug report. Paolo, you used (part of) my suggested
wording to fix the texinfo manual, but you never saw my man page
patch:

diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1
index e9b4589..6026157 100644
--- a/doc/grep.in.1
+++ b/doc/grep.in.1
@@ -676,11 +676,10 @@ and
 .BR [:xdigit:].
 For example,
 .B [[:alnum:]]
-means
-.BR [0\-9A\-Za\-z] ,
-except the latter form depends upon the C locale and the
-\s-1ASCII\s0 character encoding, whereas the former is independent
-of locale and character set.
+means the character class of numbers and
+letters in the current locale. In the C locale and \s-1ASCII\s0
+character set encoding, this is the same as
+.BR [0-9A-Za-z] .
 (Note that the brackets in these class names are part of the symbolic
 names, and must be included in addition to the brackets delimiting
 the bracket expression.)


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