[A-Z]* oddities
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha
strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Tue Feb 3 14:13:07 UTC 2004
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:21:00AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> My assumption is that you're expecting a specific collation order
> such as the legacy "C" or "POSIX" sorting rules, however you're
> not using that locale and instead are getting sorting which is
> locale dependant?
Yes, I've been throughly educated about the wrongness of my setup and my
expectations. :)
> If so, decide which collation you want, and set LC_COLLATE to
> that. For example, in my .bashrc I have:
>
> # Get rid of UTF-8 performance loss.
> export LANG=en_US
I like Unicode.
> # Sort stuff the sane oldschool UNIX way
> export LC_COLLATE=C
That ignores accented chars. Oh well, I can't have everything. I'll try to
get used to [[:class:]] as Miloslav suggested.
Regards,
Luciano Rocha
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