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Re: nocaseglob


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: nocaseglob
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:14:33 -0700
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Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
> >You need to force the issue.  Add
> >export LC_COLLATE=C
> >to your startup files.
> 
> I prefer to use an even bigger hammer:
> 
>       export LC_ALL=C

That is a big hammer!  But today I prefer to use UTF-8 character sets
and the associated machinery.  It is nice to see people's names and
other things as they were intended.  Using LC_ALL turns everything
off.  Which of course is fine to lock to a very traditional Unix
environment.

I prefer this:

  export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  export LC_COLLATE=C

That way I get the good parts (charsets) but not the bad parts
(collating / sorting).  People's definitions of good and bad here are
obviously open to interpretation.

Bob




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