Re: [PATCH][BZ #15527] strftime_l.c: Support lowercase output

[Jakub Martisko <jamartis at redhat dot com>]

Hi Andreas,

thanks for your comment. The reason why I sent the patch is that there 
is a bug/feature request for similar functionality in coreutils' "date" 
program and the maintainers of coreutils/gnulib do not want to diverge 
from the glibc interface. Even though the replacing you mentioned does 
indeed work, built-in version would be imo better (for example when 
using other shell than bash), especially when all of the needed 
functionality was already implemented.

Jakub

On 15.6.2016 11:08, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jakub Martisko <jamartis@redhat.com> writes:
>
> >   @item ^
> > -The output uses uppercase characters, but only if this is possible
> > +The output uses uppercase characters, but only if this is possible.
> > +
> > +@item #
> > +The output uses opposite case characters, but only if this is possible.
> > +Can be combined with @samp{^} to produce lowercase characters.
> >   (@pxref{Case Conversion}).
> >   @end table
>
> Bash is using ${x^} and ${x,} for case replacing expansions.
>
> Andreas.