Re: LANG=C not English?
On 08/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
>
> C != en_US
>
> $ ( echo a ; echo B ) | sort
> a
> B
>
> $ ( echo a ; echo B ) | LANG=C sort
> B
> a
>
> $ ( echo a ; echo B ) | LC_COLLATE=C sort
> B
> a
>
>
> The built-in C locale has no sorting order. All others provide ordering
> of characters. And specifically, place each English small cap right
> after the capital one.
>
> And not to mention that en_US does not use ascii. It used ISO-8859-1 and
> now should use UTF-8 like the rest of the civilized world.
>
That is interesting. Thanks!
Dotan Cohen
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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