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Re: Rational Range Interpretation for bash-5.0?

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  Re: Rational Range Interpretation for bash-5.0? Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> - 2018-08-06 15:12 -0600

#14456 — Re: Rational Range Interpretation for bash-5.0?

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 think the non-rational ranges in libc were a terrible idea that we
have all been suffering with over the last decade plus.

Bob

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