Re: Issue in man page regex.7

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi Helge,

On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 02:02:12PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Without further ado, the following was found:
> 
> Issue 1:  alphabetic?
> Issue 2:  multiple cases → both cases?

Depending on the locale, more than 2 are possible, AFAIK, so multiple
would be more accurate in that context, I think.

Cheers,
Alex

> 
> "If case-independent matching is specified, the effect is much as if all case "
> "distinctions had vanished from the alphabet.  When an alphabetic that exists "
> "in multiple cases appears as an ordinary character outside a bracket "
> "expression, it is effectively transformed into a bracket expression "
> "containing both cases, for example, \\[aq]x\\[aq] becomes \"I<[xX]>\".  When "
> "it appears inside a bracket expression, all case counterparts of it are "
> "added to the bracket expression, so that, for example, \"I<[x]>\" becomes "
> "\"I<[xX]>\" and \"I<[\\[ha]x]>\" becomes \"I<[\\[ha]xX]>\"."

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