[25507] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.27: iconv and i18n
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Feb 13 08:30:17 2004
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:29:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <bugs:25506@unknown-discuss-server> (Greg Hudson's message of
"Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:18:29 -0500")
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cc: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> writes:
> Setting a locale like this would have some far-reaching effects; for
> example, "ls" would begin sorting files case-insensitively. It may be a
> good idea, but it will require careful consideration.
Of course, one can always restore traditional sort order by setting
LC_COLLATE to C. Still, there is no question that jumping to any
locale -- particularly a multibyte one -- has nontrivial consequences.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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