sed command does not behave equal from 10.3 to 11.0

Tomoaki AOKI junchoon at dec.sakura.ne.jp
Wed Jul 27 11:55:50 UTC 2016


Hi.

There were some collation related changes (*1) between 10.3 and 11.
So the results can be changed even with the same locale.

*1: For example, r302512.
  https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2016-July/088919.html

But I cannot understand why ASCII range of characters are affected with
UTF-8 encoding.


On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 11:19:06 +0200
Jos〓 Garc〓a Juanino <jjuanino at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27 July 2016 at 11:01, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:45:23AM +0100 I heard the voice of
> > krad, and lo! it spake thus:
> >> are you sure you aren't hitting a port or something?
> >
> > Locale dependant.
> >
> > % echo "abc_ABC.def" | env LANG=C sed -e 's/[^A-Z0-9]//g'
> > ABC
> >
> > % echo "abc_ABC.def" | env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sed -e 's/[^A-Z0-9]//g'
> > bcABCdef
> >
> > (pre-branch -CURRENT)
> >
> 
> The issue is that, under the same locale, the output is not the same
> in 10.3 as 11.0. It sounds to me a bug ...
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