Re: locale

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:26:05PM -0500, Michael George wrote:
> Okay, I think I've narrowed down my search of the problem I'm having with sort
> to the difference in locales on the two machines.  One machine reports en_US
> for all the locales when I issue the "locale" command, and the other reports
> POSIX.
> 
> The man pages on this topic are sketchy, at best.  I'm wondering how I can
> change the machine that is "en_US" so that it is "POSIX".  Anyone know how?
> When I do a man on "setlocale" it displays a man page for a C function call...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Michael
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
One possibility is to place:
export LC_COLLATE=POSIX
in your .bashrc file.
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