Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Sun, 27 Oct 2002 01:48:27PM -0500, Stephen Gran insinuated: > > This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > > > only problem is ... previously, i'd had LC_ALL=POSIX, which made > > > ls not intersperse dot-files and non dot-files (which i hate). > > > just exporting LC_COLLATE=POSIX after I export LC_ALL in my > > > ~/.zshenv doesn't seem to do it. > > > > > > there must be a way to individually set these different locales to > > > different things, no? > > > > > > thanks again, > > > > > > </nori> > > > > You can alias 'ls = LC_COLLATE=POSIX ls' in your ~/.zshenv (I think > > - using bash here, not sure how zsh deals with aliases). > > zsh deals with aliases pretty much the same as bash. > > tried that before aliasing it -- i didn't know you could just specify > a variable setting for a single command, that's cool! -- but it > doesn't seem to work. `LC_ALL=POSIX ls` does, though ... weird. i > don't know why the individual locale variables don't seem to work. > but i will alias that, and then my problems will be solved. thanks!
No, I think the previous poster was right. I think you really want just LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (or whatever) and LC_COLLATE=C (same as POSIX). If you unset all other LC_* variables, then LC_ALL won't be necessary, and you won't need an alias for ls. I've been through a similar process, and that is all that is necessary. The LANG variable is the master for all of the other LC_* variables, and each default to it. If any of the LC_* variables is individually set then that value is used instead of the LANG default. LC_ALL overrides all of the other LC_* variables and LANG, but I can't see any reason it should ever be needed. -- Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]