From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 07:39:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: ranges vs ebcdic
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0g~32
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=449a130ddb23780a711c9c3136fbcba34c69ff08;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

ranges vs ebcdic
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diff --git a/doc/textutils.texi b/doc/textutils.texi
index f1ddc70fc2..9e2fb1301b 100644
--- a/doc/textutils.texi
+++ b/doc/textutils.texi
@@ -3426,6 +3426,11 @@ enclose ranges, translations specified in that format will still work as
 long as the brackets in @var{string1} correspond to identical brackets
 in @var{string2}.
 
+Many historically common and even accepted uses of ranges are not
+portable.  For example, on @sc{ebcdic} hosts using the @samp{A-Z}
+range will not do what most would expect because @samp{A} through @samp{Z}
+are not contiguous as they are in @sc{ascii}.
+
 @item Repeated characters
 @cindex repeated characters