On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 05:55:27AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I seem to recall that once upon a time sort either mentioned LC_COLLATE, > or it was considered putting LC_COLLATE in. The above is pretty much why > it doesn't at the moment, IIRC. One possible compromise would be to say > something like "Set LC_ALL to C or set LC_COLLATE as described in > ..."--but after a quick look around I have no idea what other doc to > point people to. It's frankly just not coreutil's responsibility to > document the locale system, but locale(1) doesn't even mention LC_ALL, > neither does environ(7) or locale(5). setlocale(3) has the basic info, > but it's not at all geared toward the end-user and makes some big > assumptions about the reader's background knowledge of the subject.
Hi Michael, I agree that all of those are poor places to direct the uncomprehending user, but personally I find locale(7) to be a fairly gentle introduction. Though, ideally, I think some material should be moved between setlocale(3) and locale(7). Thanks for your prompt response! -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked Debian GNU/Linux | like in a spotlight. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Jim Morrison http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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