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grep '[A-Z]' vs locale
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grep-locales.sh
$ echo aðc | LANG=C.UTF-8 grep -o '[[:lower:]]'
a
ð
c
$ echo aðc | LANG=C.UTF-8 grep -o '[[:upper:]]'
$ echo aðc | LANG=C.UTF-8 grep -o '[A-Z]'
$ # so far so good
$ echo aðc | LANG=nn_NO.UTF-8 grep -o '[[:lower:]]'
a
ð
c
$ echo aðc | LANG=nn_NO.UTF-8 grep -o '[[:upper:]]'
$ echo aðc | LANG=nn_NO.UTF-8 grep -o '[A-Z]'
ð
$ echo WðT | iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8
WðT
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