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Subject: Re: LC_COLLATE vs. egrep -- bug or (non-)feature?
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From: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:51:31 +0100
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ht writes:

> Is this a feature, or a bug associated with the current ongoing
> discussion about locales:
>
>  > LC_ALL= egrep '^[a-b]l[dl]e.n$' /usr/share/dict/words
> aldern
>> LC_COLLATE= egrep '^[a-b]l[dl]e.n$' /usr/share/dict/words
> aldern
> Alleen
> Alleyn
>
> If it's a feature, how do I set LC_COLLATE w/o changing the other
> aspects of my locale?
>
> Relevant bits of cygcheck -s:
>
>  2651k 2011/08/05 C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>         DLL version: 1.7.10
>         DLL identifier: cygwin1
> grep                      2.6.3-1              OK

Should have included my locale info:

> locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8

ht
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