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Re: Locale en_US and sorting order



On Mon, 02 Sep 2002, Carl Johnson wrote:
> I have been using the locale en_US.UTF-8 for unicode, and I noticed
> that the sorting order is different than the default 'C' locale.  With

Obviously.  You don't expect dictionaries to sort "a" and "A" differently,
do you?

> I've been using different versions of unix for 15-20 years and the old
> system is thoroughly burned into my brain, so I would like to get it
> back.  Does anybody know how to change back, or is the current system
> even considered a bug?

export LC_COLLATE=C  will do it.  It is actually a bug not to have it if you
need C collation order in a script or something...

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