On Friday 07 April 2006 07:51, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > $ unset LC_COLLATE > $ locale > [...] > LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" > [...] > $ echo -e "A\na\nB\nb" | sort > a > A > b > B It works here also with just an unset LC_COLLATE. I would not set it unless it needs to differ from LANG wr:~/b/av$ echo $LC_COLLATE wr:~/b/av$ echo $LANG de_DE@euro wr:~/b/av$ echo -e "A\na\nB\nb" | sort a A b B -- Wolfgang