I really don't like that 'ls -la' seems to ignore a leading dot when sorting files for display - eg. in terminal I'll get old Pictures .profile Public
I haven't changed any settings yet; I've still got LANG=en_US.utf8 I can fix the problem by aliasing ls to 'LC_COLLATE=C ls' but that seems klunky and would only fix ls (and not break anything else). How bad of an idea would it be to set LC_COLLATE=C in my .bashrc or is there some other setting to get dot files listed first, then uppercase, then lowercase? and I thought character codes 32-126 were the same thing in ascii and utf8, so why is this happening in the first place? Thanks, Lee
