Why is "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" the default in Fedora

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Fri May 21 18:28:21 UTC 2004


On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:11:37PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> That's what "sort -i" is for. There is *no*, I repeat *no* way to get sort
> to operate as a case-sensitive operation short of resetting your locale
> before beginning.

You can repeat all you like you are still confused about it.

Simple demo. Input file consists of abacus and Abacus randomly ordered

 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sort demo
abacus
abacus
abacus
abacus
abacus
abacus
abacus
abacus
Abacus
Abacus
Abacus
Abacus
Abacus
Abacus
Abacus
Abacus
Abacus

Output is sorted.





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