[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I gather that the default collation sequence compiled into glibc in Red
Hat 7.2 or later is whatever comes with en_US, which basically tries to
make the system case insensitive in many respects. I suspect it's
trying to be more appealing to people migrating from Windows. <shrug>
One symptom is that "echo [A-Z]*" is the same as "echo [A-Za-z]*" !!!
To revert to traditional behaviour, put this into your
/etc/profile.d/local.sh:
LC_COLLATE="C" export LC_COLLATE
I stumbled over this when sending a set of files to the printer, and
found every file printed twice. A colleague at work knew more of the
background, and the fix.
luke
I would call that a bug.
Submit it to Redhat.
Matt
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