on Mon, 28 Oct 2002 01:43:36PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > so i finally listened to what you were saying, sean, and all it took > was unsetting everything except LANG, which i kept to en_US, and > then setting LC_COLLATE to C. dude. that was simple enough. > thanks, sean!
::sigh::
i thought i had everything fixed ... but i guess not. again, all i
want is C sorting, and en_US so i can see accented characters in mutt
and in the shell and stuff. so, in my .zshenv (sourced by .zshrc),
the only relevant variables i've set are:
export LANG=en_US
export LC_COLLATE=C
and then, locale still does this:
orange:~> locale
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=en_US
exporting variables (like LC_COLLATE) from the command line does not
appear to modify the output of locale. if i can't fix this, i'm going
back to aliasing ls to `LC_ALL=C ls`, which would be obnoxious,
because then accented characters wouldn't be ?s in listings.
TIA,
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