Package: svgalib Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi,
[a-z] may not represent all 26 ASCII lowercase letters in regular expressions, eg. Estonian collation sorts z between s and t: $ echo rstuvwxyz | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sed -e 's/[a-z]//g' $ echo rstuvwxyz | LC_ALL=et_EE.UTF-8 sed -e 's/[a-z]//g' tuvwxy As shown above, this applies to sed, but also awk, grep, expr $ echo tuv | LC_ALL=et_EE.UTF-8 awk '/[a-z]/ {print}' $ echo tuv | LC_ALL=et_EE.UTF-8 grep [a-z] $ LC_ALL=et_EE.UTF-8 expr tuv : [a-z] $ and many more. On the other hand, some commands always work with C collation rules, most notably tr: $ echo 1rstuvwxyz2 | LC_ALL=et_EE.UTF-8 tr -d a-z 12 or perl and python if they are not told to switch to user's locale. One must then switch to C locale to avoid those collation issues, see attached patch. Thanks Denis
diff -ru debian.orig/libsvga1.prerm debian/libsvga1.prerm --- debian.orig/libsvga1.prerm 2005-12-16 13:35:07.000000000 +0100 +++ debian/libsvga1.prerm 2005-12-16 13:36:22.000000000 +0100 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ CONFFILE=/etc/vga/libvga.config if [ -f "$CONFFILE" -a ! -f "$MOUSEFILE" ] && - MOUSELINE=`sed '/^mouse [A-Za-z0-9]*$/I!d;q' "$CONFFILE"` && + MOUSELINE=`LC_ALL=C sed '/^mouse [A-Za-z0-9]*$/I!d;q' "$CONFFILE"` && [ "$MOUSELINE" != 'mouse unconfigured' ]; then cat << EOF > "$MOUSEFILE" # This file contains your mouse type setting, which is preserved