[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash brace expansion in non-C locales??

Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov.ml at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 21:50:26 UTC 2013


On 03/12/2013 10:10 PM, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:02:27PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure nobody in bash development actually considers
>> locale-specific letter ordering rules. Language-specific idiosyncrasies
>> are a never ending stream of hurt and implementation problems (e.g. in
>> my language "ch" is supposed to be treated as a single letter for
>> sorting purposes).
> 
> Interestingly, "ch" is not always a single letter. It depends on a word:
> "viachlasný" is an example of a word where "ch" are two letters...
> 
> Yes, our language is Slovak.

Correct, that's another twisty-twist I forgot to mention. Slovak
sucks... (for computing)

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Saso



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