Re: sh emulation POSIX non-conformances ("inf"/"Inf" in arithmetic expressions)

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-04-24 19:18:25 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 4:03 PM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > both for the behavior and documentation, be careful with the
> > locales, in particular in Turkish ones. I don't know whether
> > this is expected in zsh, but...
> >
> > zira% zsh -fc 'export LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8; echo $((Inf)) $((inf))'
> > Inf Inf
> > zira% zsh -fc 'export LC_ALL=tr_TR.utf8; echo $((Inf)) $((inf))'
> > Inf 0
> 
> schaefer[856] ls -ld /usr/share/i18n/locales/tr_TR
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168368 Dec 16 03:04 /usr/share/i18n/locales/tr_TR
> schaefer[857] Src/zsh -fc 'export LC_ALL=tr_TR.utf8; echo $((Inf)) $((inf))'
> Inf Inf
> 
> ??

You may have non-standard Turkish locales, because the following line
in math.c is obviously incorrect:

                    else if (strncasecmp(p, "Inf", 3) == 0) {

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