Re: Locale en_US and sorting order
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> 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...
Thanks, that fixes it for me. That looks like one more thing for my
.bashrc file.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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