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Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2007 19:30:42 -0800
From: "Jack Johnson" <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] simplicity
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Yes, old thread, sorry.  Blame Uriel.

On 9/18/07, Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote:
> erik quanstrom wrote:
> > suppose Linux user a and user b grep the same "text" file for the same string.
> > results will depend on the users' locales.
>
> But if they're trying to match an alphabetic character class, the
> result *should* depend on the locale.

This baffles me.  Can anyone think of examples where one might want
differing results depending on your locale?

-Jack