On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 09:59 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 02:40:06PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > How would this locale differ from C.UTF-8? Is the only difference > > that C.UTF-8 has strict lexicographical sorting, whereas "en" would > > have > > case-insensitive sorting like en_GB.utf8 does? (If that's the only > > difference, then perhaps something like "LANG=C.utf8 > > LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8" > > is enough.) > > POSIX specifies the output format for various utilities in the C locale, > which defeats my understanding of the purpose of this proposal. So, for > example, in ls -l:
I don't think the "C.UTF-8" locale covered by any promises POSIX might make for "C". (Nor is what happens when no LC_*, LANG vairables are set at all.) Ansgar