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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-08-01 07:39:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-08-01 07:39:56 +0000 |
| commit | 449a130ddb23780a711c9c3136fbcba34c69ff08 (patch) | |
| tree | 112e08fdf789ce14f937e17ce6052c28a359475c /doc | |
| parent | 10798a81c4490a0b1d43856a79ba34c267b5b2e3 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-449a130ddb23780a711c9c3136fbcba34c69ff08.tar.xz | |
ranges vs ebcdic
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diff --git a/doc/textutils.texi b/doc/textutils.texi index f1ddc70fc..9e2fb1301 100644 --- a/doc/textutils.texi +++ b/doc/textutils.texi @@ -3426,6 +3426,11 @@ enclose ranges, translations specified in that format will still work as long as the brackets in @var{string1} correspond to identical brackets in @var{string2}. +Many historically common and even accepted uses of ranges are not +portable. For example, on @sc{ebcdic} hosts using the @samp{A-Z} +range will not do what most would expect because @samp{A} through @samp{Z} +are not contiguous as they are in @sc{ascii}. + @item Repeated characters @cindex repeated characters |