Re: locale specific ordering in EN_US -- why is a<A<b<B<y<Y<z<Z?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:38:03 +0200
> From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
> CC: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de>, chet.ramey@case.edu, 
>  arnold@skeeve.com, bug-bash@gnu.org, bug-sed@gnu.org
> 
> > When being consistent means being buggy, I don't want the consistency.
> > I want the bug solved in all the programs I use, but if it takes time
> > to do that, I will be glad in the meantime to use some programs that
> > don't have that bug, i.e. are "inconsistent".
> 
> I will be less glad to move a regex or piece of code from one to
> another, and find inconsistency.

You should report a bug in that case.

> Just use LC_COLLATE=C, as you have probably been doing for years.

I don't.  Not everyone runs on a machine where you can esily set the
locale to anything you like, nor on a system where a locale is local
to a program.