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

Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se
Wed Mar 13 07:01:16 UTC 2013


Can that confusion happen at the start of a word or only inside words?? 
And how many rulebreaking words are there, can they be enumerated??

On 2013-03-12 22:50, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> 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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