Alex J. Dam wrote: > $ echo 'ABÇ' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] > gives me > abÇ > (the last character is an uppercase cedilla) > I expecte its output to be: > abç > > Am I doing something wrong?
No, your expectations match what POSIX specifies. > Is tr (version 2.1) broken? Yes, and even the i18n patches from IBM http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/patches/?patch_id=24 contain no fix for it. > It happens with sed, too. $ echo 'ABÇ' | sed -e 's,\(.*\),\L\1\E,' abÇ Yes this seems like a bug in GNU sed 4.0.3. I'm CCing bug-coreutils and the sed maintainer, so the maintainers can do something about it. Bruno -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
