Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment

[Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxxxx>]

Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> Geoff Clare wrote:
> 
>> The shell should complain about the variable name.  Quoting from
>> my first mail in this thread:
>>
>> | There is a formal definition for "name" in this context:
>> | |     3.230 Name
>> |     In the shell command language, a word consisting solely of
>> |     underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable character
>> |     set. The first character of a name is not a digit.
>>
>> Note the phrase "from the portable character set".  Thus u-umlaut
>> is not a valid character in shell variable names.
> 
> "from the portable character set", but in which locale?

The portable character set, by definition, is locale-independent.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap06.html#tag_06_01

Chet
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