tr A-Z a-z

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:59:01AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:53:01AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > Strange: I was used to do upper case lower case conversion always like this
> > and it suddenly doesn't work anymore:
> > 
> > $ echo Z | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"
> > ÿ
> 
> Something locale-related?

locale
LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1
LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO_8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.ISO_8859-1"
LC_TIME="en_US.ISO_8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.ISO_8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.ISO_8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.ISO_8859-1"
LC_ALL=

echo Z | tr "A-Z" "a-z" | od -x
0000000      0aff                                                        
0000002

set

USER=kuku
SSH_CLIENT='137.226.9.123 53261 22'
MAIL=/var/mail/kuku
HOME=/home/kuku
SSH_TTY=/dev/ttyp1
PAGER=more
PS1='$ '
OPTIND=1
PS2='> '
LOGNAME=kuku
TERM=vt100
BLOCKSIZE=K
PPID=49204
PATH=.:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/home/kuku/bin:/usr/local/jdk1.1.5/bin:/usr/local/jsdk/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1
SHELL=/bin/sh
IFS=' 	
'
CLASSPATH=.:/home/kuku/classes:/usr/local/jdk1.1.5/lib/classes.zip:/usr/local/jdk1.1.5/classes:/usr/local/jserv0.9.11/servclasses.zip:/usr/local/jsdk/lib/classes.zip
SSH_CONNECTION='137.226.9.123 53261 213.146.122.181 22'
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
EDITOR=vi

It must be something too obvious but I don't see it at the moment.

I found that it depends on my special environment settings.
A different user doesn't have this problem.


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org