Re: AI 2000-05-010: proposed interface

["Sandra O'donnell USG" <yyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   > In my mind [a-c] should include a A b B c C (and diacritcs).
   > New and novice users would expect that behaviour.
   
   On which planet do you live?  People writing
   
           rm [a-z]*
   
   don't want to see their file named IMPORTANT being removed.

I live on Planet Earth. A place where people speak different languages
and have different expectations about what any given range includes.
Not everyone is a Unix veteran who only uses the C locale. 

You have often said that you only have U.S. locales on the systems
available to you. Your systems may only exhibit 1970s and 1980s
behavior with respect to character handling, but most of us have
moved way beyond that.

                -- Sandra
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Sandra Martin O'Donnell
Compaq Computer Corporation
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