From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: mario.blaettermann@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issue in man page isalpha.3
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:30:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aUwHAfEUlBqeH172@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aUv63X1xB-YsQmmo@meinfjell.helgefjelltest.de>
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On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 02:38:21PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Without further ado, the following was found:
>
> Issue: I<(isupper(c)\\ ||\\ islower(c))> → B<(isupper(>I<c>B<) || islower(>I<c>B<))>
This is expected.
Cheers,
Alex
>
> "checks for an alphabetic character; in the standard B<\\[dq]C\\[dq]> locale, "
> "it is equivalent to I<(isupper(c)\\ ||\\ islower(c))>. In some locales, "
> "there may be additional characters for which B<isalpha>() is true\\"
> "[em]letters which are neither uppercase nor lowercase."
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2025-12-24 14:38 Issue in man page isalpha.3 Helge Kreutzmann
2025-12-24 15:30 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
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2025-12-24 14:38 Helge Kreutzmann
2025-12-24 15:24 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-25 5:58 ` Helge Kreutzmann
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