tr A-Z a-z in locales other than C

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On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:

>> maybe another option would be modifying tr to recognize other [new] 
>> environment variables... TR_LANG, TR_LC_ALL, TR_LC_CTYPE and 
>> TR_LC_COLLATE. done that way, things could be set in /etc/make.conf (or 
>> sys.mk), not need any patching, and not interfere with other uses of 
>> locale.
>
> That would be rather ugly.
>
> If tr a-z A-Z is supposed to be deceiving in some locales, then let it 
> remain so unconditionally.
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it can still be as ugly as one wants it to be, and in some ports that 
might be fine. but this option would provide a very simple option to reign 
in how ugly it is.


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