From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:39:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison, as per POSIX.
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_15~314
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8cde252806213f2454d57f651c5257bb54cb3e0;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison, as per POSIX.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index d4e28d90f8..e32c7bd9f7 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -8295,10 +8295,12 @@ Return its first argument if neither argument is null or 0, otherwise
 @kindex >
 @kindex >=
 @cindex comparison operators
+@vindex LC_COLLATE
 Compare the arguments and return 1 if the relation is true, 0 otherwise.
 @code{==} is a synonym for @code{=}.  @code{expr} first tries to convert
 both arguments to numbers and do a numeric comparison; if either
-conversion fails, it does a lexicographic comparison.
+conversion fails, it does a lexicographic comparison using the character
+collating sequence specified by the @env{LC_COLLATE} locale.
 
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