localedata/locales/iso14651_t1 problem?

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sat May 5 23:18:00 GMT 2001


GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.org> writes:

> > % LANG=en_US ls -a
> > .   file2vZuoT  filevijr0k  ssh-XXOKiPLN  texMSudLt  .X11-unix
> > ..  filennXKNi  .font-unix  texaZj9oc     .X0-lock   .xf86config20364
> 
> (This version of "ls" is locale sensitive)
> Above is correct behavior. But, users want below behavior like:
> 
> > % LANG=en_US ls -a
> > .   .X0-lock   .font-unix        file2vZuoT  filevijr0k    texMSudLt
> > ..  .X11-unix  .xf86config20364  filennXKNi  ssh-XXOKiPLN  texaZj9oc

Then let those people use LC_ALL=C.  You have to learn to
differentiate between the assumptions made by people who used
non-i18n-ized systems and the assumptions a neutral (or new) user has.
The first output is what everybody in the second camp expects since
this is how a dictionary is ordered.

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