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Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.
Date 2019-12-23 15:58 -0500
Message-ID <mailman.1337.1577134711.1979.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References (6 earlier) <20191218194651.GH851@eeg.ccf.org> <5DFD68B9.3050202@tlinx.org> <2334eff4-8a88-18ee-b086-4ba4e80af01b@archlinux.org> <5E0128F0.5000901@tlinx.org> <20191223205826.GY851@eeg.ccf.org>

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On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 12:52:00PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
>    But it wasn't.  It was about generating characters between two
> characters that were given.  In unicode, that would be two code points.
> Nothing about enumeration.

Please give an example, with a starting character and an ending
character, and the resulting output.  Explain why a bash user who
uses your implementation to echo {ñ..💩} (N WITH TILDE to PILE OF
POO) or whatever will feel that your answer is correct and sensible.

>    It is in unicode code point order.  Which is what you would use
> for unicode.  If you want to sort via unicode, use the -u switch.

That isn't what the sort -u option does, and you know it.  I hope.

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Re: Unicode range and enumeration support. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-12-23 15:58 -0500

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