case conversion in sed substitution does not work

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:29:12AM +0000, Dennis Decker Jensen wrote:

> case 1:
> 
> echo dennis decker jensen | sed -re 's/[a-z]+/\U&/'
> DENNIS decker jensen
> 
> case 2:
> 
> echo dennis decker jensen | sed -re 's/[a-z]+/\u&/'
> ennis decker jensen
> 
> I expected this in case 2:
> Dennis decker jensen
> 
> It eats the character! The same thing happens when using \l (\L).

I can reproduce this bug on Warty, but not on Hoary.  It seems to have been
fixed.

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 - mdz