Sorting Issues

[james]

I am using RedHat 7.2 and recently upgraded my packages to use fileutils-4.1.4. 
 The sort version is 2.0.14 and the ls version is 1.5i1.

In both cases, they are no longer sorting via ASCII value, and are
sorting in a case insensitive fashion.  While there is an option on
sort to sort case-insensitive, there is no option to make it a case
sensitive sort.  

The info pages and man pages both indicate the sorts are alleged to
be ASCII, as well.

I see nothing in my environment that should modify sort order, my
environment is enclosed:

PWD=/home/james
TZ=PST8PDT
XAUTHORITY=/home/james/.Xauthority
WINDOWID=37748750
VENDOR=intel
HOSTNAME=annapurna.sagarmatha.com
novi=false
PVM_RSH=/usr/bin/rsh
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-2.3.1
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
BLOCKSIZE=1k
KDEDIR=/usr
USER=james
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01;32:*.csh=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:
MACHTYPE=i386
MAIL=/var/mail/james
LANG=en_US
HOST=annapurna.sagarmatha.com
DISPLAY=:0.0
LOGNAME=james
SHLVL=8
GROUP=james
_=/home/james/bin/elmvi
SHELL=/bin/csh
HOSTTYPE=i386-linux
CVSROOT=/home/src
OSTYPE=linux
LAMHELPFILE=/etc/lam/lam-helpfile
PVM_ROOT=/usr/share/pvm3
HOME=/home/james
TERM=xterm
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
PATH=.:/home/james/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/home/james/ppp:/usr/sbin:/sbin
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