Why does character range class [A-z] match underscore?

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Character ranges are not that intelligent. They are based on ascii codes. Check out Ascii Table. There exist special characters between upper-case A-Z and lower-case a-z range, namely:

[
\
]
^
_
`

So, instead of A-z it should be A-Za-z.

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