Why is LANG set to en_US.UTF-8?
Chris Adams
cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Jan 19 19:26:53 UTC 2005
Once upon a time, Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> said:
> Usually I have it set to just "C" (default POSIX locale). I hate when
> ls intermix dot files with "normal" files in ls -a output, and don't
> like lower/upercase being ignored when sorting either. Setting LANG to
> C solves both problems :-)
Since all you are complaining about here is ordering (not charset or
language issues), you should just change the ordering. LC_COLLATE=C
works just fine while keeping all the magic goodness that is
en_US.UTF-8.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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