On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 01:51:54PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > 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 >
While it may not particularly intuitive, I would not call it obnoxious. In English, the '.' would not customarily be used to make lexical sorting decisions. Dr. Jiles Dr Jones Dr. Jurgenson That would be the sort order I expect (for English, or most any other natural language locale). Either of Dr Jones Dr. Jiles Dr. Jurgenson or Dr. Jiles Dr. Jurgenson Dr Jones would seem incorrect to me. I suspect that collation function has no way of knowing whether the punctuation is important or not, so it must adhere to the rules specified in the locale (to ignore it in this case). You could always write a custom locale that sorts punctuation before or after letters, as you like. The locale(5) man page would be a good place to start for that. > 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. > Call me old school, but I have LC_COLLATE=C in every shell profile on every machine that I use. I find that sorting is most important to me at the shell prompt (and usually when using ls). There has never been instance where I encountered an oddity that I even suspected related to my choice of LC_COLLATE. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
