Am 15.06.2011 14:24, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Chetan Tiwari <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Valery, >> >> My LANG was set to en_US.utf8. I changed it to C as you suggested and that >> worked! Thanks much for that tip. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Chetan > > Yeah, "LANG" is messing with a lot of programs that used to work well. > It's worse with the "sort" utility. en_US.utf8 is case insensitive, > and there is no way to restore proper case sensitivity to ordering > except to set LANG to something sane, like 'C' or 'POSIX'.
Well, with a natural language setting, sort actually sorts alphabetically, not ASCII-betically. Therefore it is just as sane as every dictionary or book index. You are right, though. Something like a --bytes switch for enabling the old behavior would be nice. Note that setting LANG is not enough. You need to set LC_ALL. Regards, Florian Philipp
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