On Wednesday 11 May 2005 08:59 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> maillog: 12/05/2005-00:26:14(+0100): Ciaran McCreesh types
>
> > On Wed, 11 May 2005 16:12:45 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > | Francesco Riosa wrote:
> > | > case $(getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION | tr
> > | > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ) in
> > |
> > | Wow, what a bad way to use tr. Apparently the author's unfamiliar with
> > | [:lower:] and [:upper:].
> >
> > We don't set LC_ALL=C...
>
> tr a-z A-Z ?

not all locales have alphabets that start at A and end at Z

see the silly estonian alphabet for example
-mike
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