sre is broken in SuSE 9.2

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Serge Orlov wrote:
  > To summarize the discussion: either it's a bug in glibc or there is an
> option to specify modern POSIX locale. POSIX locale consist of
> characters from the portable character set, unicode is certainly
> portable. 

Yes, but U+00E4 is not in the portable character set. The portable
character set is defined here:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/charset.html

Regards,
Martin