Alain> Sorry for my ignorance, but does it means a to z including <a!>
Alain> (`), <a^> (b), <c,> (g) [and upper case and so on] too? What about
Alain> the Icelandic "thorn", which in CAN/CSA standard Z243.4.1
Alain> (Ordering) comes with "th" while in the European prenorm on
Alain> ordering and in ISO/IEC CD 14651 it comes after "z"?
Ahh. The "collation" problem becomes clear to me!
So it boils down to the "naming" problem again. Does [a-z] mean:
1. [a-z] only?
2. all lower case Latin letters?
3. [a-z] plus the subset of accented lower case Latin letters that are
collated between "a" and "z" in the current language (leaving out letters
that collate after "z")?
Good question. After realizing the answer wouldn't be trivial, I set the
question aside and took the expedient path: everyone is burdened with
specifying ranges explicitly.
Alain> Just a question like that... I'm curious... these things never
Alain> worked so far in non-English speaking environments... but a miracle
Alain> is always possible... and I believe in miracles... I make them
Alain> happen when I have no other means (:
That's an attitude I like :-)
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