On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Chetan Tiwari <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi Valery,
>>
>> My LANG was set to en_US.utf8. I changed it to C as you suggested and that
>> worked! Thanks much for that tip.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Chetan
>
> Yeah, "LANG" is messing with a lot of programs that used to work well.
> It's worse with the "sort" utility. en_US.utf8 is case insensitive,
> and there is no way to restore proper case sensitivity to ordering
> except to set LANG to something sane, like 'C' or 'POSIX'.

setting LC_COLLATE is sufficient for sorting, so you can have
don't have to give up the other bits of your locale.

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