Re: multibyte locale patches for GNU utils available

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulrich Drepper wrote on 2001-05-08 18:06 UTC:
> The arrogance of Unix users
> declaring their way of sorting to be the only true one is unbearable.
> Everybody except those used to the pre-i18n era Unix tools expects
> collation the way it is done now.  Get used to it.

Real Unix geeks anyway use something like

  export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C

and preserve the traditional beloved wicked sorting order.

Thanks Bruno for your work on these patches!!!

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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