On Wednesday 28 Aug 2002 04:27, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > COOL! You solved it better than I did! > > On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 20:09, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > export LC_COLLATE=POSIX > > When I was trying to solve this, I thought I had gone through every LC_ > variable and unset it, did an ls, then on to the next. I totally > missed LC_COLLATE. That is the ONLY one that needs to be set to "C" or > "POSIX". > > THANK YOU!!! Now I don't have to hack my X11 startup scripts anymore, > just need to set that in /etc/sysconfig/i18n.
You're welcome. I thank you again for putting me on the right track. > > > You're absolutely right Lonnie. Thanks for that information and my > > apologies for falsely maligning Mandrake. What I do now is add the > > following lines to /etc/profile: > > export LANG=en_GB > > export LANGUAGE=en_GB:en > > export LC_MESSAGES=en_GB > > export LC_MONETARY=en_GB > > export LC_TIME=en_GB > > export LC_COLLATE=POSIX > > All you have to do is put all that into /etc/sysconfig/i18n so all > things on the system that set locales will see it - not everything uses > /etc/profile. > That's what I'll do with Mandrake. My gentoo box doesn't use /etc/sysconfig/i18n - that's why I put it in /etc/profile for now. -- Gentoo Linux (portage-2.0.28). KDE: 3.0.3 Qt: 3.0.5 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.19-win4lin. GCC 2.95.3 Linux user #275590 (http://counter.li.org/). up 10:16. #=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=#
