Re: OT: Gawk match() and numbers in scientific notation

pk wrote:
> 
> And, even if it is so, that helps only for POSIX character classes; how
does
> one answer the question "what characters match, eg, '[A-Z]' under a
given
> locale?".

Yes. Why does /[A-C]/ (in locale en_GB and de_DE) match the five
characters
65 A
66 B
67 C
98 b
99 c

> I think the answer to this lies in the understanding of
> LC_COLLATE.

Meanwhile, I fear, that there's either a bug or a fundamental flaw in the
conception of the locales (at least in conjunction with regexp character
ranges). The above result doesn't make the least sense to me.

Janis