2011/9/4 James Cloos <[email protected]>: >>>>>> "MJ" == Michał Janke <[email protected]> writes: > > MJ> Yes, that is exactly the case - why on earth would someone want that? > MJ> This results in just some sorting madness! > > Complaints have been made about glibc's absurd and insane preference for > case insensitive collation (at least in en and the euro locales) for > nearly 20 years now. All w/o resolution. > > The other place this hits, and where many first saw it, is that it > allows a command like 'rm [a-z]*' to unlink(2) files like Makefile. > > -JimC
This is much more severe than I imagined. I'd like to look into this - how come, for so many years, this behavior could have been ignored/accepted? There must be some explanation to it, I'm just wondering how good it is for people who get their stuff deleted by scripts which failed to reset locale settings.
