strange tr behaviour

[Pav Lucistnik]

V pá, 26. 03. 2004 v 09:00, Michael Reifenberger píše:

> Hi,
> under -current with the following env settings:
> 	LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> 	LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> 	LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> using tr as follows I get:
> 
> # echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSUÚWXYÝ]

correct

> but:
> 
> # echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

correct

> AND:
> 
> # unsetenv LC_ALL
> # unsetenv LC_CTYPE
> # unsetenv LANG
> # echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

correct

> ?!?
> Anyone else?
> Anyone any clue?

Everything works as expected, what's the problem?

You can't abuse [a-z] [A-Z] for uppercasing of string.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

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Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
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