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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-08-26 05:39:37 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-08-26 05:39:37 +0000
commitc8cde252806213f2454d57f651c5257bb54cb3e0 (patch)
tree94de4afc94db4b0395295e46680528dca87539b5 /doc
parentb3d09e5532f05db8f2bf2436344dc2132556cbaa (diff)
downloadcoreutils-c8cde252806213f2454d57f651c5257bb54cb3e0.tar.xz
expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison, as per POSIX.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index d4e28d90f..e32c7bd9f 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -8295,10 +8295,12 @@ Return its first argument if neither argument is null or 0, otherwise
@kindex >
@kindex >=
@cindex comparison operators
+@vindex LC_COLLATE
Compare the arguments and return 1 if the relation is true, 0 otherwise.
@code{==} is a synonym for @code{=}. @code{expr} first tries to convert
both arguments to numbers and do a numeric comparison; if either
-conversion fails, it does a lexicographic comparison.
+conversion fails, it does a lexicographic comparison using the character
+collating sequence specified by the @env{LC_COLLATE} locale.
@end table