Re: wishlist: option to ls to ignore case but not .leadingdots

[gregory mott]

i want to intermix upper and lower case, but not .leadingdot files. 
like sort -f does.

is there a locale setting to do what i want?  unfortunately neither
POSIX nor C intermix upper and lower case, while en_us intermixes all,
including .leadingdots.

i would prefer that ls have the same capability as sort.

(piping ls to sort and using color output are incompatible.)

failing all the above, perhaps i need to define a locale for the
purpose?  can someone point me to TFM for that?  and/or how about a list
of existing locales?  tia..