On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Paul Eggert wrote: > Dirk Stoecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What about the following solution? It is not exactly implementing the > > above options, but nevertheless fixes the problem directly: > > But isn't this equivalent to setting LC_COLLATE="C" and LC_TIME="C" in > the environment? Why bother to have two different ways to do the same
Well, there are 2 reasons: a) In some cases (e.g. commands called from editors) it is very complicated or impossible to set environment variables. b) Even advanced users do not know of LC_COLLATE. I myself use UNIX operating systems for more than 10 years and it is the very first time I get in contact with this special environment variable. It is very unintuitive to set environment variables, whereas a program option is the normal way. Having both ways does no harm. > thing? (And how did LC_TIME get involved? This is starting to sound > messy....) I thought LC_TIME has to be in the same category. I did not really check this. Remove that if wrong. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.de/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
