Testiness.

Allan Clark allanc at chickenandporn.com
Thu Sep 1 18:06:39 UTC 2005


Robin Farine wrote:

>On Thursday September 1 2005 02:35, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>  
>
>>In message <200508311921.16444.rob at landley.net> you wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Now add in the fact that sort (which we were talking about) has the -f option 
>>>to ignore case.  (It's in the SUSv3 spec.)  I did not supply the -f option.  
>>>The _bug_ that I'm seeing is that with UTF8, the -f option is forced on.  
>>>      
>>>
>>It's even worse than that: if you use something  like  '[a-z]*'  then
>>it's on for A-Y, but not for Z :-(
>>    
>>
>
>I followed this thread with amusement and now I just wonder: since
>busybox is meant to be used in size constrained systems, isn't it
>somewhat incompatible with "internationalization" and all the implied
>bells and whistles?
>
>Everyone here is trying to spare a few bytes in each applet, so is it
>worth trying to support anything but LC_ALL=C? For the full monty thing,
>we already have the GNU stuff ...
>
In an office of 350, I was recently one of six guys who could speak 
really good english (and the grammer of my emails might cause you to 
debate that)... would this decision simply increase my value here in 
Beijing?  :)

Allan




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