Re: sort weirdness

[Michael George <george mintcity com>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:23:55PM -0500, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Michael George wrote:
> 
> > I have two systems that have been upgraded to RHL 7.0.  One from 6.1, the
> > other from 6.2.
> >
> > One one system, sort will sort lines in a file as I would expect from the
> > past: capital letters preceed all lower-case letters.  However, on the other
> > one, it treats all letters as lower-case, as though the "-f" flag were set,
> > but it's not.
> >
> > I've check the man page and the info page and found nothing there.  I suspect
> > that the difference may lie in the LC_{CTYPE,COLLATE} files, but I don't know
> > how to check/manipulate them.  Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> I think this come up recently.
> 
> Try setting LC_COLLATE=C and see if that clears things up. This has to do
> with the full integration of the i18 (internationalization) stuff.
> Basically the default has been changed to the way your language sorts.
> Setting it equal to 'C' means to sort the way the C compiler has always
> done. If this works, put it in it's own file in /etc/profile.d and it will
> do it for you always.

Is not LC_COLLATE a file in /usr/lib/locale/en_US?  I will try this
suggestion, but it doesn't help me figure out why it works one way on one
machine and another on the other.

Thanks!

-Michael

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