tr(1) buggy with de_DE.ISO8859-1(5) locale?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Feb 3 12:00:38 PST 2006


In the last episode (Feb 03), Martin said:
> There is a quite nasty bug in tr(1) when using de_DE.ISO8859-1(5)
> locale.
> 
> Try this please:
> unsetenv LC_ALL
> setenv LANG de_DE.ISO8859-1
> echo v | tr a-z A-Z
> 
> I'm getting "W" as result. Shouldn't it be "V"?

See the "tr" manpage, especially the EXAMPLES and COMPATIBILITY
sections.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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