[27073] in Athena Bugs
Re: Athena linux 9.4.36: locales and bash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Apr 2 16:49:48 2007
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
From: amu@alum.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:49:27 -0400
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"Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:26:01 -0400 (EDT)")
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John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu> writes:
> It appears that bash does case-insensitive shell globbing when the
> locale is en_US.UTF-8 (which is the default that I don't change).
This is a "feature"; I recommend setting LC_COLLATE=C to restore
traditional behavior.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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