> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:38:03 +0200 > From: Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> > CC: Johannes Meixner <jsm...@suse.de>, chet.ra...@case.edu, > arn...@skeeve.com, bug-bash@gnu.org, bug-...@gnu.org > > > When being consistent means being buggy, I don't want the consistency. > > I want the bug solved in all the programs I use, but if it takes time > > to do that, I will be glad in the meantime to use some programs that > > don't have that bug, i.e. are "inconsistent". > > I will be less glad to move a regex or piece of code from one to > another, and find inconsistency.
You should report a bug in that case. > Just use LC_COLLATE=C, as you have probably been doing for years. I don't. Not everyone runs on a machine where you can esily set the locale to anything you like, nor on a system where a locale is local to a program.