[offlist] Re: perl and line endings...

[Aaron Crane]

Aristotle Pagaltzis writes:

* Aaron Crane <hate...@aaroncrane.co.uk> [2008-10-11 00:10]:
>   $ echo z | env LANG=en_GB.utf-8      grep '[A-Z]'
>   z

Which is why my `.profile` says this:

    export LC_ALL=
    export LANG=en_US.utf8
    export LC_COLLATE=C
    export LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8

Same here, modulo language preferences.  I also explicitly unset
`LC_ALL` and all the other locale-related variables, for paranoia; I’m
curious to know if there’s a reason you export an empty `LC_ALL`
rather than unsetting it.

Maybe it’s just that, as you’ve previously noted, I have a thing
for archæology, but it interests me to observe that I’ve had an
`LC_COLLATE=C` in my shell configuration since time immemorial —
that is, since before my dotfiles were under revision control.

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