Alan Curry wrote: > 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"?
As far as I know, which isn't as much as I would like especially in this case, it is implemented in libc. Therefore it would need to be addressed with libc folks. http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ But very likely the chain continues well beyond that point. If you find out, please educate me. > 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? It would be nice to be able to set my locale to [email protected] or [email protected] and get a better behaved collation sequence. Bob
