Re: Rational Range Interpretation for bash-5.0?

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On 08/06/2018 03:07 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Hi. I am considering making bash glob expansion implement rational range
> interpretation starting with bash-5.0 -- basically making globasciiranges
> the default. It looks like glibc is going to do this for version 2.28 (at
> least for a-z, A-Z, and 0-9), and other GNU utilities have done it for some
> time. What do folks think?

I'm in favor of the idea.

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Re: Rational Range Interpretation for bash-5.0? Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2018-08-06 15:14 -0500

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