Added better documentation on POSIX-conformance.

[SVN r28278]
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John Maddock
2005-04-16 16:06:45 +00:00
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point of a range, for example: [[.ae.]-c] matches the character sequence "ae",
plus any single character in the rangle "ae"-c, assuming that "ae" is treated
as a single collating element in the current locale.</P>
<P>Collating elements may be used in place of escapes (which are not normally
allowed inside character sets), for example [[.^.]abc] would match either one
of the characters 'abc^'.</P>
<P>As an extension, a collating element may also be specified via its <A href="collating_names.html">
symbolic name</A>, for example:</P>
<P>[[.NUL.]]</P>
<P>matches a NUL character.</P>
<H5>Equivalence classes:</H5>
<P>
An expression of the form[[=col=]], matches any character or collating element
An expression of theform[[=col=]], matches any character or collating element
whose primary sort key is the same as that for collating element <EM>col</EM>,
as with collating elements the name <EM>col</EM> may be a <A href="collating_names.html">
symbolic name</A>.&nbsp; A primary sort key is one that ignores case,
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</I>
</body>
</html>