On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:32:57PM +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
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> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote:
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> > Ulrich has taken the table from an older draft, where
> > uppercase and lowercase had been separated. This facilitates
> > that regular expressions like [a-c]* does not address
> > initial uppercase letter, which could cause surprises for
> > users eg deleting files and not expecting files with initial
> > uppercase letters to be deleted.
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> so you mean that someone should update the glibc data file with recent
> data?
Yes, possibly. But Ulrich is very reluctant in doing this as
it will have the results as explained above.
> btw, you mean that the regular expressions are locale dependent?!
> i thought they should be handled by the POSIX locale to be portable.
Yes, they are locale dependent according to the POSIX standards.
Keld
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