bug#12008: Alphabetic sorting respect user's language and/or locale

[martin rudalics]

>> Ideally, it should be possible to specify a locale-independent behavior.
>
> I'm confused: what is "locale-independent behavior" in this context?
> Do you mean the ability to request a collation specific for the German
> locale when your current system locale is something else?

Yes.

> If so, this
> is not locale-independent behavior as I understand it.  If you mean
> something else, please elaborate.
>
>>  > (And btw, AFAIK Dired doesn't sort, it relies on 'ls' to do so, and
>>  > 'ls' uses 'strcoll' to sort file names.
>>
>> I suppose this doesn't hold for the `ls' coming with GnuWin32.
>
> Why do you think so?  The code calls strcoll even on Windows.

But how do I request it when calling `ls'?  Or, maybe better, what can I
do to have `ls' respect my locale?

martin