[PLUG] env LANG=C -resolved

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Sat Nov 2 19:00:50 UTC 2002


Russell Senior wrote:

>>>>>> "Carla" == Carla Schroder <pluglist at bratgrrl.com> writes:
> 
> One of the *important* differences between LANG=C and LANG=en_US is
> that capitalization matters in the former and not in the latter, that
> is LANG=C is in ASCII order, LANG=en_US is in alphabetic order.  Old
> timers like me are used to the LANG=C behavior.

And, as I'm sure you know, you can compromise between the two with:

LANG=en_US
LC_COLLATE=C 

Of course, you could set 'LANG=C' to begin with, but then you wouldn't be 
able to display high-bit Latin-1 characters, so you couldn't write things 
like "Götterdämerung" or "beim Maß" or even "el Niño".

Wil
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