On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
i think the locale will take care of the selection of letters automatically.
Exactly... which is what we need to prevent. For example, if the locale were fr_FR, then d-f would mean deèéêf - which is not what we want. When we say d-f, we want only def, so we need to explicitly state this, by listing all characters.