Re: sort order changed in "sort" and "ls".

[Eric Blake]

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According to Rogier Wolff on 3/10/2009 9:15 AM:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:40:32PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Most likely, this is due to your choice of locales, and not a bug
>> in sort nor in ls.
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-ls-command-is-not-listing-files-in-a-normal-order_0021
> 
> Apparently it's LANG that sets the locale: no LC_* variables were set. 

LANG is the default that is used when LC_* are not set, which in turn are
used only when LC_ALL is not set.  And if LANG is not set, then it is
system-defined what the default is (in other words, with LANG not set, you
may get lucky and get the C locale on your system, but not on all
systems).  The FAQ recommends LC_ALL because that is the simplest fix, not
to mention that it avoids problems that may arise from mixing incompatible
LC categories (such as selecting a unibyte LC_CTYPE but a multibyte
LC_COLLATE).

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