Subject: bug#25048: --with-included-regex vs. e-acute piped into LC_ALL=fr_FR.iso88591 grep '[d-f]'

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 11:48:11 -0700

> We SHOULD be adjusting more and more GNU tools to honor rational range
> behavior,

Hear, hear!  (Or "+1" in 21st Century English.)

The official term, coined by Karl Berry and as documented in the gawk
manual, is "Rational Range Interpretation".  :-) :-)

> at least as an option, even if that means that e-acute can
> never be matched to [d-f].

Now, if we could get GLIBC to move to that, we'd have something.

I've tried to submit patches in the past that weren't accepted,
but maybe it's worth trying again.

At least gawk and gnulib-based programs generally do so.

Arnold