On 10/3/18, Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 12:31:01PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> >> interesting... I get different results for 'ls [D-M]*' if LC_COLLATE=C >> or LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 >> > Think of it this way: > > en_US.utf8 -> sort in alphabetical order > C -> sort in ASCII-betical order > > In ASCII, all of the capital letters precede all of the lowercase > letters. In US English, there is not a sorting distinction between a > capital and its matching lowercase, so they are considered equivalent. > Said another way, in ASCII 'A' != 'a', but en_US.utf8 'A' == 'a' (and > probably in every locale that uses Latin-1 as a base).
Sure - I can understand some people wanting A a to sort together. But ignoring non-alpha characters when sorting??? Eventually I'm sure I can get used to Music old Pictures but this order is obnoxious .mozilla Music old Pictures .profile Public I don't think I'll ever get used to that. I'm just a bit concerned that setting LC_COLLATE=C is going to break something & I'll have a heck of a time figuring out it was because I changed the sort order. Regards, Lee
