[A-Z]* oddities

[Mark Mielke]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:15:01PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> This is totally expected :).
> For what you want try LANG=C echo [A-Z]* ...
> In LANG=en_US.UTF-8 which is the default, both 'A' and 'a' sort
> before 'B' and 'b'.

The messed up part, in my mind, is that they actually implemented it
correctly. Last time I checked, the Perl authors had given up on ever
getting it to work correctly... (probably scared to hurt efficiency
and/or break existing programs)

mark

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