> > My locale is set do de_DE.ISO_8859-1, not de_DE.ASCII > > If I type 2 characters ss, I mean 2 characters ss. If I type ß I > > mean the single character ß. > > This sorting behaviour is just wrong. Not every apperence of "ss" > > even in pure ASCII does mean "ß". > > I suggest you set LC_COLLATE to C, then it sorts in the good old > fashioned way its meant to be. > (like this on Solaris 7: > Assel > aSS > asen > ass > asse > assel > assen > aß > aßen > ) The locales were introduced to be used. I want words with umlauts to be sorted the right way, not somewhere at the end of the section/file.
Solaris isn't the problem. FreeBSD treats two character strings special, which is wrong IMHO. I want FreeBSD to sort the same way as Solaris: No special interpretation of "ss", which would be right on some cases, wrong on other (wrong on all cases if we use phone book sorting) The only LC_ variable which is not set to de (de_DE.ISO_8859-1 on FreeBSD) is LC_NUMERIC. I don't want to convert all awk scripts... Daniel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
