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Re: >2 char man page suffixes ?




On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Marc Espie wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 03:07:38PM +0200, Toomas Kiisk wrote:
> > Patterns like [a-z] are BROKEN. Why do people expect that z is
> > the last character in all languages??? Bugs like that can lead to
> > worst kind of problems. I am not claiming that I have had
> > problems with OpenBSD, this is just BUG.
> 
> This is one point we'll tackle when we get around to actual
> international support...   I'm afraid this is definitely a 
> very minor point compared to everything that doesn't work yet.
> 

I agree. I just wanted to point out one quite common mistake.
This is latent right now, but can lead to problems in the future.


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