Re: The Greek letter "rho" is considered as two letters

[Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:57:12PM +0300, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Erm actually this problem happens with all utf8 characters, i.e. dash
> does not properly take utf8 characters into account when expanding "?".

> $ touch appétit              
> $ ls app?tit
> ls: cannot access app?tit: No such file or directory
> $ ls app??tit
> appétit

Yes, it seems that dash has zero support for locales. In some ways this
is an advantage, as locale support can make things considerably slower
and configure/startup scripts don't need it. However, it leads to
inconsistent behaviour with other utilities that do support locales.

For FreeBSD's /bin/sh, which is another ash variant, I think some degree
of locale support (at least for utf-8) is desirable at some point. This
would include changing pattern matching and ${#var}.

I don't know what Herbert Xu thinks about this.

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Jilles Tjoelker