On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:47:53PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > 16:36:49 [michelle.konzack@tp570.private:~] export LC_ALL=en_US LC_ALL overrides all the other variables. Specifically it overrides LC_COLLATE . LANG merely provides them the defautl. This explains your results. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzafrir@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend