Bug#256440: LC_COLLATE broken using es_ES and es_ES@euro
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:39:42AM +0200, Daniel Peña wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.2.5-11.5
>
> When I invoke 'ls [A-Z][A-Z]*' trying to find files starting with 2
> upper-case letters, I obtain the listing of all the dir and its subdirs
> like if I invoked 'ls *'.
> This happen when LC_COLLATE is set to 'es_ES' or 'es_ES@euro' (or
> LC_ALL="es_ES" or LC_ALL="es_ES@euro").
> When LC_COLLATE is set to 'C' (LANG="es_ES" or LANG="es_ES@euro" and
> LC_ALL="") all goes all right.
I doubt this is a bug. Many non-C locales have a collation order that
sorts like this:
AaBbCcDd...
If you want ABCD...abcd..., then LC_COLLATE=C is available.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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