How do I disable utf-8?

David Nedrow listbox at nedron.net
Tue Aug 10 22:10:30 UTC 2004


On Aug 10, 2004, at 16:50, Mike Hogsett wrote:

> I find lots of things break with UTF-8.  Edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n
>


Not the least of which is that sorting doesn't work "properly" to my 
mind in UTF-8.

Eg., files named apple, Banana, orange, and .plum will be sorted as 
follows:

UTF-8 (Wrong!):

apple
Banana
orange
.plum


C: (Correct)

.plum
Banana
apple
orange


Setting LC_COLLATE=C fixes that though. ;-)

-David





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