[PATCH] test-encode: Use tr chacter classes instead of character ranges

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

On 24 Jan 2010, at 01:05, Mads Kiilerich wrote:

> I'm not sure about the facts, but I guess some kind of story is necessary...
> 
> Solaris tr doesn't understand 'a-z' but wants it like '[a-z]'. Other implementations (old GNU?) do however not understand '[a-z]' (even though it seems to work accidentially).
> 
> The upper/lower character classes seems work and is documented on "all" (for all < 3) platforms.

It probably won't matter in this instance as it's in a test, but one other difference is that '[:lower:]' is locale-aware, and matches characters such as æ, ø, å, é, ü, ö, ä and so on. The same goes with '[:upper:]', of course…

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Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
danchr at gmail.com

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