Bob Proulx writes: > > You don't like it and I don't like it but the-powers-that-be have
Who's the "power" here anyway? Who do we have to impeach? Seriously. The "en_US" locale is an unmitigated disaster. It's officially called "not a bug" every time it comes up, which seems to be once a week on this list alone, so what volume of complaints is required to tip the balance to "all right it's a damn bug let's fix it"? >From the name "en_US" one might guess that it represents the behavior expected by English-speaking users in or from the US. But those users have lived with computers for a generation or two. What they expect is ASCIIbetical. The only people who actually expect phone-book-style sorting are old geezers who remember what a phone book was. Most of them have never used a computer and never will, so why do we (and by "we" I mean whoever makes the locale rules) bend the default to accommodate them? -- Alan Curry
