On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> Compiles and works out the box on Mac OS X 10.5.1. There is one locale-
> related failure, which as noted is almost certainly not a bug in PCRE.
> The same failure occurred with 7.4. Any suggestions on how I could
> investigate this failure and get it passing?
>
> Test 3: locale-specific features (using 'fr_FR' locale)
> --- ./testdata/testoutput3 2007-07-30 13:20:48.000000000 +0200
> +++ testtry 2008-01-10 19:08:05.000000000 +0100
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bra
> [A-Za-z\xaa\xb5\xba\xc0-\xd6\xd8-\xf6\xf8-\xff]
> - [a-z\xb5\xdf-\xf6\xf8-\xff]
> + [a-z\xaa\xb5\xba\xdf-\xf6\xf8-\xff]
The difference is that \xaa and \xba are considered to be [:lower:] in
your French locale and not in mine. These characters are "feminine
ordinal indicator" and "masculine ordinal indicator", and they consist
of a small underlined letter ('a' and 'o', respectively). In Unicode,
they are indeed flagged as lower case letters, but there is obviously
some disagreement in the (non-Unicode) locales.
I am not sure there is anything that can be done about this. I am also
not sure if anything should be done about it, as the world does seem to
be slowly moving away from single-byte character sets. So if we wait
long enough, the problem will go away. :-) Maybe.
Philip
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Philip Hazel
