[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
It is not that I don't want to do anything about it. It is that I
can't do anything about it. The locale is set by the user. I have no
control over it. (Sometimes the locale is set by the distro vendor
without the user's knowledge or control. That
. For the locale data the book
collating order is the default.
I think we are in violent agreement.
I think what you really want to do is to create your own locale where
the collating sequence is normal while still providing you with
localization.
Bob
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
I guess the problem is that the dot has a different meaning in the
context of file names so ls should try to do something clever like
splitting the extension from the basename and sort the basenames
first.
The dot has no special meaning in
Hi,
Apparently, the way ls sort the file names does not work with a
localised sorting order. For instance, with a en_US locale, I get:
~$ mkdir t cd t
~/t$ touch event.C event.h eventgenerator.C eventgenerator.h
~/t$ LANG=en_US ls -1
event.C
eventgenerator.C
eventgenerator.h
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:11:28PM +0200, Ole Laursen wrote:
~/t$ LANG=en_US ls -1
event.C
eventgenerator.C
eventgenerator.h
event.h
In other words, these sort as if they were
eventc
eventgeneratorc
eventgeneratorh
eventh
I guess the problem is that the dot has a different
