unset LC_ALL LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-1 export LC_CTYPE c1=e # o umlaut c2=$(printf '\366') # non-break space c3=$(printf '\240') c4=$(printf '\240') # $c2$c3$c4 form one utf-8 character ok=0 case $c1$c2$c3$c4 in *) ok=1 ;; esac if [ $ok = 0 ]; then echo wrong at $LINENO exit 3 fi case $c1$c2$c3$c4 in $c1$c2$c3$c4) ;; *) echo wrong at $LINENO ;; esac case $c1$c2$c3$c4 in "$c1$c2$c3$c4") ;; *) echo wrong at $LINENO ;; esac case $c1$c2$c3$c4 in ????) ;; *) echo wrong at $LINENO ;; esac case $c1$c2$c3$c4 in [!$c2][!b][!c][!d]) ;; *) echo wrong at $LINENO ;; esac case $c1$c2$c3$c4 in [$c1][$c2][$c3][$c4]) ;; *) echo wrong at $LINENO ;; esac case $c1$c2$c3$c4 in ["$c1"]["$c2"]["$c3"]["$c4"]) ;; *) echo wrong at $LINENO ;; esac