Prog piR wrote: > date +%^B gives the month in capital letters > > but in french august is "août", and the accentued letter is not capitalized > > date +%^B gives AOûT instead of AOÛT
Nor does tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' support multibyte chars either, I'll add that to the list of multibyte stuff I need to look at. > In addition, is there any option to have lowercase ? The ^ and # flags are GNU extensions. I guess for consistency we could add lower. cheers, Pádraig.