in reply to Why [[:alpha:]] doesn't involve diacritic characters in replace expression?

Not completely sure but I believe that in order to get [:alpha:] to grok accented characters you also need to use the locale pragma (in addition to utf8 as you've done).

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Re^2: Why [[:alpha:]] doesn't involve diacritic characters in replace expression?
by wk (Novice) on Oct 22, 2008 at 15:48 UTC
    I use locale-pragma in my scripts, but this has no point for yours environment, so i let it out from my example script.
    Kõike hääd. WK