On 12/3/10, Eric Blake <eblake@ > wrote: > On 12/03/2010 07:11 PM, Lee wrote: >>> Or, is this a bug? > > No, but a "feature" of your locale. Set 'export LC_COLLATE=C', and use > LANG rather than LC_ALL for all your other locale defaults, in your > ~/.bashrc if you don't like it.
Nice tip - thank you. But is there a reason I'd want LANG set to en_US.UTF-8 instead of C.UTF-8? As far as I can tell, everything works for me with LANG=C.UTF-8. Other than changing the collating sequence to something I don't want, what does LANG=en_US.UTF-8 get me that LANG=C.UTF-8 doesn't? & as long as I'm showing how ignorant I am... why put the local defaults in ~/.bashrc? My understanding is that ~/.bashrc is called at every shell startup. Seems like that's one of those things that just needs to be set in the login shell, so wouldn't ~/.bash_profile be more appropriate for the locale settings? >> Welcome to the new world order :-0 I tried to figure out why the >> collating sequence changes with the language settings but didn't get >> anywhere beyond the fact that it _does_ change. Oh well.. try, try >> again. > > Read the FAQ. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/, E9. Which says the en_US locale collates the upper and lower case letters like this: AaBb...Zz I got that much :) What I don't get is why someone would _want_ the collating sequence to be AaBb... or why that sequence was picked for en_US instead of using the natural order of A-Za-z. Regards, Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple