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From: | Bob Proulx |
Subject: | bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid. |
Date: | Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:07:46 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Andreas Schwab wrote: > Alan Curry writes: > > From the name "en_US" one might guess that it represents the behavior > > expected by English-speaking users in or from the US. But those users > > have lived with computers for a generation or two. What they expect is > > ASCIIbetical. > > Nowadays most people don't know what ASCII is. Even fewer know about EBCDIC. Or why native host byte ordering might differ between machines with different encodings. Bob
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