On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 03:08:20PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > So all bash needs to do to print {Z..a} is to take Z == ASCII decimal 90 > and a == ASCII decimal 97, then enumerate the numbers 90-97 and > translate them into ascii. No locale awareness is needed, no heuristics, > no invocation of the locale subsystem, you don't even need to hardcode > the ASCII range in source code.
Until you want to use bash on an EBCDIC system. ;-) > And that's why bash can support enumerating a range of ASCII characters > in LC_COLLATE=C order, when it cannot (easily) do so using other locales. Yup.