[Linux-disciples] Locale and sort order

[Stephen R Laniel]

My officemate just pointed out that on a Debian box I set up
for him, 'ls' sorts case-insensitively. I had never noticed
this before, but it's apparently true on my Debian and
Ubuntu boxes as well. A little googling suggests that this
is a locale problem: doing

LC_ALL=POSIX ls

will fix the problem temporarily, as will LC_ALL=C. All the
en_US locales have the sort-order problem.

This problem doesn't seem to exist under FreeBSD; I have an
account on a FreeBSD machine, with LANG=en_US.UTF-8, and
everything sorts the way that UNIX people have come to
expect.

Other than hacks like

alias ls="LC_ALL=POSIX ls"

can people suggest any good ways to keep the desired en_US
locale and yet get rid of case-insensitive sorting?

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
steve at laniels.org
+(617) 308-5571
http://laniels.org/
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