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Re: LC_COLLATE (was Re: SVN Test Repo updated)
paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch (Paolo Bonzini) wrote on 17.02.05 in <4214B328.5060006@lu.unisi.ch>:
> > The sort alghorithm has nothing to do with ls, but with your selection of
> > LC_COLLATE. But then, BSD (at least the variant used in MacOSX) is way
> > behind current l10n standards.
>
> At least they do not break s/[A-Z]// which on "well-internationalized"
> OSes is case-insensitive with most locales other than C.
>
> I still haven't dug enough to understand if the responsible for this is
> the POSIX specification for localization, the ANSI specification for
> strcoll, or somebody in the glibc team. But I know that it was the
> most-reported sed "bug" before I explicitly flagged it as a non-bug in
> the manual.
>
> I can only guess the outcry if Perl started obeying LC_COLLATE.
What do you mean, "started"? It's been doing that for years now.
MfG Kai