OT: Gawk match() and numbers in scientific notation

On May 8, 4:22=A0pm, pk <p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> For example, under linux it seems that each locale is defined by a
series =
of
> files under /usr/share/i18n/locales (on my system at least).
> A quick look at those files reveals that they are where the various
> LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC etc. values are defined (I must say that I'm
still =
a
> bit puzzled about the syntax used, but that can be solved by carefully
> reading the docs and the standard, I hope).
> As an example, the file /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB (could not find a
> en_GB.utf8 file) has inside it:
>

My /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB has also inside it:

LC_CTYPE
copy "i18n"

i18n in return defines the character classes: upper, lower, etc. Each
one with a list of  Unicode version 5.0.0 code points, that are
included in a given character class.

Hermann