Oren Held wrote on 2003-08-06: > Anyway something is still very strange. It happens even when LC_COLLATE > is en_US, at least in my Mandrake 9.1. Sort works as it should only when > LC_COLLATE is unset, C or POSIX. > > Anybody has Mdk 9.1 and can approve it? > I have distro-whose-name-is-a-trademark 9.0 and I approve :-).
All language-based locales have collate order where lower and upper case letters are adjacent (a,A,b,B,...); only C and POSIX (they are aliases to the same locale, right?) use directly the ASCII order where all uppercase letters precede all lowercase ones. There is an old unix traditions of starting directory-central files from capital letters (`README`, `Makefile`) so that they come first in `ls`; I like this conrtol over sorting so I always export LC_COLLATE=C. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
