Re: Dealing with character ranges in grep

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 19:14, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/08/2011 10:14 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>
>> So, for the upcoming gawk 4.0, I decided (as Karl put it) to cut the
>> Gordian knot and make ranges behave like the C locale, the way it's long
>> been documented, and as most people expect.  Those who want the POSIX
>> behavior can still get it using --posix.
>
> This comment and the ensuing thread seems to be assuming old POSIX.

No, it's glibc who does.  In the first message I mention that there is
no need to change behavior based on POSIXLY_CORRECT.

Paolo