Inspired by this old Stack Overflow question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19765610/when-does-locale-affect-rs-regular-expressions I was wondering why this is TRUE: Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "et_EE") grepl("[A-Z]", "T") TRE's documentation at <https://laurikari.net/tre/documentation/regex-syntax/> says that a range "is shorthand for the full range of characters between those two [endpoints] (inclusive) in the collating sequence". Yet, T is *not* between A and Z in the Estonian collating sequence: sort(LETTERS) [1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "H" "I" "J" "K" "L" "M" "N" "O" "P" "Q" "R" "S" [20] "Z" "T" "U" "V" "W" "X" "Y" I realize that this may be a question about TRE rather than about R *per se* (FWIW the grepl() result is also TRUE with `perl = TRUE`, so the question also applies to PCRE), but I'm wondering if anyone has any insights ... (and yes, I know that the correct answer is "use [:alpha:] and don't worry about it") (In contrast, the ICU engine underlying stringi/stringr says "[t]he characters to include are determined by Unicode code point ordering" - see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76365426/does-stringrs-regex-engine-translate-a-z-into-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz/76366163#76366163 for links)
why does [A-Z] include 'T' in an Estonian locale?
1 message · Ben Bolker