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bug #19637: \w and [[:alnum:]] not equivalent in multibyte locale

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Fri 20 Apr 2007 08:26:28 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Open/Closed:  Open

Fri 20 Apr 2007 12:14:25 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Confirmed.  So this is two bugs:

1) The man page should not say that \w equals [[:alnum:]], as the first includes also the underscore.
2) \w does not match accented characters in an utf8 locale.


$ export LC_ALL=nl_NL
$ echo -e " ee\n ëë\n __\n" | src/grep -E '\w'
 ee
 ëë
 __
$ echo -e " ee\n ëë\n __\n" | src/grep -E '[[:alnum:]]'
 ee
 ëë

[switch the Konsole's encoding from iso-8859-1 to utf8 and retype the lines instead of recalling history]

$ export LC_ALL=nl_NL.utf8
$ echo -e " ee\n ëë\n __\n" | src/grep -E '\w'
 ee
 __
$ echo -e " ee\n ëë\n __\n" | src/grep -E '[[:alnum:]]'
 ee
 ëë

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Fri 20 Apr 2007 08:26:28 AM UTC, original submission:  

In grep's manpage I found:

  The symbol \w is a synonym for [[:alnum:]]

This is true in a single-byte locale
(terminal = xterm -en iso-8859-1):

 echo -e "a\nä\n" | LC_ALL=de_DE ./grep -E '\w'
 a
 ä
 echo -e "a\nä\n_" | LC_ALL=de_DE ./grep -E '[[:alnum:]]'
 a
 ä

But not in an utf-8 locale
(terminal xterm -u8):

 echo -e "a\nä" | LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 ./grep -P '\w'
 a
 echo -e "a\nä\n_" | LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 ./grep -E '[[:alnum:]]'
 a
 ä

System:

  openSUSE 10.2

  grep from CVS

[volga:src] uname -a
Linux volga 2.6.18.8-0.1-default #1 SMP Fri Mar 2 13:51:59 UTC 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[volga:src] locale -V
locale (GNU libc) 2.5
...
[volga:src] ./grep -V
GNU grep 2.5.1-cvs
...


Thanks, Sebastian

(wastl[]cis.uni-muenchen.de)

 

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