Re: tr A-Z a-z in locales other than C

the man page makes it clear...

      Translate the contents of file1 to upper-case.

            tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" < file1

      (This should be preferred over the traditional UNIX idiom of ``tr a-z
 	A-Z'', since it works correctly in all locales.)

for any other uses, either build the port with locale specified as "C" as 
mentioned, or patch the port so:
 	tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
  becomes:
 	env LC_ALL=C tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'

the only change that would be appropriate to the tr utility would be a 
command-line option to select a locale... something like:
 	tr -l C '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'

i don't think anyone would object to that, but it would still require 
patching some ports under some locales...

maybe another option would be modifying tr to recognize other [new] 
environment variables... TR_LANG, TR_LC_ALL, TR_LC_CTYPE and 
TR_LC_COLLATE. done that way, things could be set in /etc/make.conf (or 
sys.mk), not need any patching, and not interfere with other uses of 
locale.

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