Luke Hutchison wrote: > I understand that --help output needs to be relatively short,
Let me vote here too, --help needs to be concise. Longer explaination ant tutelage should go in the full info documentation. > nevertheless adding a short example will probably save lots of similar > questions on the mailing lists if the FAQ is correct in stating how > frequently this question is raised. The number of questions about it has definitely fallen off in the last couple of years. During the initial transition from the old libc to the new libc with locale based collating (it is really a libc thing) there were many. But not so many more recently. Mostly because by now most users have already made the transition. And now new users are arriving only having ever seen the new behavior and are learning it for the first time and are now coming to expect locale sorting by default. And the idiom to correct this problem of setting the local to C/POSIX is getting to be much more widely known. Bob
