[illumos-Developer] tr webrev

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 02:41 +0200, I. Szczesniak wrote:

> >
> > c) look at Olga's work on this -- I know that she had a ksh93/ast
> > derived version of tr, but I seem to recall that there were some
> > problems with it.
> 
> Those problems were fixed the day after they were reported.  I have to
> check whether Glenn has already merged them into the latest beta.
> The only missing feature for full SUSv4 support in AST tr would be
> option -C. This however is not trivial and the GNU coreutils team has
> claimed that Apple has a patent for the "only viable algorithm to do
> it without precalculated collation data".

Argh, I wish you would not speculate on patents.

However, I think we can (and do!) provide precalculated collation data.

With respect to Olga's work, I simply don't have access to any code for
it.  Please supply a link and I'm happy to test and integrate if that is
the right choice.

	-- Garrett