On Wednesday 14 November 2007 21:37:46 Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > So on estonian locales those letters won't be included in [a-z] but
> > they will be included in [:alpha:].
>
> Actually that was exactly my point. If user had some funny locale that
> has digits or dots in its [:alpha:], the ebuild wouldn't work as
> desired, but it would rather strip valid stuff from the variable. But
> that's probably pure sci-fi for now :).

[:alpha:] will never have digits or dots in it. It will, however, sometimes 
have funny letters in it. And [a-z] will not always have all ansi letters in 
it.

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Bo Andresen