bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.

2010-04-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
Alan Curry pacman...@kosh.dhis.org writes: Who's the power here anyway? You are, actually. Everyone can define locales to behave the way he likes, see localedef(1). From the name en_US one might guess that it represents the behavior expected by English-speaking users in or from the US. But

bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.

2010-04-23 Thread Alan Curry
Andreas Schwab writes: Alan Curry pacman...@kosh.dhis.org writes: Who's the power here anyway? You are, actually. Everyone can define locales to behave the way he likes, see localedef(1). I avoid this by not having any locales installed. But that doesn't help all the other victims.

bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.

2010-04-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Schwab wrote: Alan Curry writes: From the name en_US one might guess that it represents the behavior expected by English-speaking users in or from the US. But those users have lived with computers for a generation or two. What they expect is ASCIIbetical. Nowadays most people

bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.

2010-04-22 Thread Alan Curry
Bob Proulx writes: You don't like it and I don't like it but the-powers-that-be have Who's the power here anyway? Who do we have to impeach? Seriously. The en_US locale is an unmitigated disaster. It's officially called not a bug every time it comes up, which seems to be once a week on this

bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.

2010-04-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Alan Curry wrote: Bob Proulx writes: You don't like it and I don't like it but the-powers-that-be have Who's the power here anyway? Who do we have to impeach? Seriously. The en_US locale is an unmitigated disaster. It's officially called not a bug every time it comes up, which seems to be