sed not working

Andrea Campi andrea+freebsd_hackers at webcom.it
Sat Sep 3 04:30:16 PDT 2005


On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:04:52PM +0300, Rein Kadastik wrote:
> Well I have one guess here. In estonian alphabet, the z comes 
> immediately after s and before t. So as the regex orders [a-z] the 
> characters t, u, v, w, x, y are left out

That's expected, and it's well known. You should either force LANG=C
or (MUCH better) use [[:alpha:]]. See man re_format(7) for more info.

Oh, and by the way: this has nothing to do with hackers@, you should
have tried questions@ first.

Bye,
	Andrea

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