-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Rogier Wolff on 3/10/2009 9:15 AM: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:40:32PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >> Most likely, this is due to your choice of locales, and not a bug >> in sort nor in ls. >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 >> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-ls-command-is-not-listing-files-in-a-normal-order_0021 > > Apparently it's LANG that sets the locale: no LC_* variables were set.
LANG is the default that is used when LC_* are not set, which in turn are used only when LC_ALL is not set. And if LANG is not set, then it is system-defined what the default is (in other words, with LANG not set, you may get lucky and get the C locale on your system, but not on all systems). The FAQ recommends LC_ALL because that is the simplest fix, not to mention that it avoids problems that may arise from mixing incompatible LC categories (such as selecting a unibyte LC_CTYPE but a multibyte LC_COLLATE). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm5qv0ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBn2gCfc6suyOlI1fDwWmfYKj/NOKf6 yJAAoIw0Xw8HHUcBSRQlLJ7V9pI9+5hf =nhLF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
