Thomas,
Thank you for expressing my reasoning, reasonably.
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > So what? Although ls is a C-language program, setlocale() function has been
> > called, so I have no idea why do you think the default should be POSIX
> > locale.
>
> C / POSIX should be the default for all unices
> During the install, I should have the option
> of setting a different locale, or leave it as C.
> Probably an expert option at that, since new users
> will probably be using a book to learn with.
>
> Anyone why has used UNIX, expects the C sorting order.
> Most books on USING unix expect the C sort order too.
> So having the default set to something else, makes
> RHL look non-standard to new users learning too.
>
> When you get to the section of a book that tells
> you how/why to set the locale to something else,
> then the user can, since they will know:
>
> 1) What it does
> 2) They wanted to do it
> 3) How to change it back.
>
> Breaking 20+ years of documentation is not a good
> thing to do in my view.
>
> Where are accented character in the C sort order?
> What are those users used to?
> Perhaps they should have a different default,
> Where the accents are sorted with no accents
> but follow C sorting otherwise.
>
> I still favor C order though.
> Sortorder was one of the things I disliked about
> Win95 and it's long names.
>
> -Thomas
>
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