My mistake. The proper file seems to be: /usr/lib/nls/localedef/En_US
comparing that to: /usr/lib/nls/localedef/C and reading about localedef at http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/locale.html#tag_005_003 It appears that En_US is, generally, a "superset" of C in z/OS UNIX with most of the "printable" characters staying in the same relative positions. And they collate more like ASCII relative order than EBCDIC relative order. I.e. 0-9 "come before" A-Z which "come before" a-z. Is this right or wrong? I don't know. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:06 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: LC_COLLATE for sort? > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:52:48 -0600, McKown, John wrote: > > >I cannot answer with total assurance, but it appears that > the LC_COLLATE sequence for en_US differs between z/OS and > other UNIX systems. I cannot really find any textual > documentation, but looking at file: > > > >/usr/lib/nls/localedef/en_US.ISO8859-1 > > > Might "ISO8859-1" imply that it applies only to files tagged as ASCII" > (You know the rest.) > > >on z/OS shows that the lower case letters collate together > before the upper case letters. I would guess in "hex code" > sequence. At least that's how it appears to me. > > > It's more complicated that that. > > >> Ubuntu and Solaris give me, which I believe is correct: > >> > >> 513 $ ls | sort > >> camel > >> CAMEL > >> canary > >> CANARY > >> cat > >> CAT > >> > ... which can't be achieved by a naive lexical ordering of > code points. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
