buildworld broken after installworld

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 4 13:32:46 PDT 2003


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:58:00PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> writes:
> > > For example, this result is right and not the bug (but wrong tr usage):
> > > 
> > > env LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1 tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
> > > vi_zero
> > > WI_]ERO
> > Clearly this is a useless construct then.
> 
> The correct construct is tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
> 
I think we've now reached the agreement with Andrey that
a more correct, safe, and portable [sic] construct would
be "LC_ALL=C tr [:lower:] [:upper:]".  It works the same
in any non-broken operating system and with any locale.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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