-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Please keep replies on the list, so that others may learn from this exchange.
According to Lyall Pearce on 6/22/2007 7:44 AM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Lyall Pearce on 6/22/2007 7:22 AM: >>> Using >>> coreutils 6.9 (gentoo version is sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1) >>> glibc 2.5 (gentoo version sys-apps/glibc-2.5-r3) >>> env variable LANG=en_AU >>> ls -la output intersperses .dot files amongst normal files, (see example >>> below) >> Not a bug, but a feature of your locale. >> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-ls-command-is-not-listing-files-in-a-normal-order_0021 >> > Thank you Eric, for replying so promptly. > > Where should I take this now, as I don't consider this to be a positive > 'feature' of my locale. Here's how to choose en_AU for everything except for sort order, which will use standard C (ie. traditional byte-based) sorting. LANG=en_AU LC_COLLATE=C export LANG LC_COLLATE unset LC_ALL The FAQ that I pointed you to mentions this sort of treatment, or at least refers you to the POSIX documentation which better explains it. > > After all, Australia uses the same character set and sort ordering as > the US, the only difference between AU and EN is date format and the > fact that Americans seem to have this habit of 'simplifying' the > spelling of words. Actually, whoever wrote the different locales also decided that the collation values of the different locales would treat punctuation differently. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGe9UB84KuGfSFAYARAo+xAKDLG5sr7Axfl0qEgKweofyUVNtcnACgo40N kpxC4O459LfikFXxk4SbgZ8= =9lBA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
