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bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid. |
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Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:16:04 +0200 |
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"Alan Curry" <address@hidden> writes:
> Who's the "power" here anyway?
You are, actually. Everyone can define locales to behave the way he
likes, see localedef(1).
> 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.
Andreas.
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