Please disregard my previous email. Just found out that this file isn't related to arch upgrade, it was created by a rogue make script. My apologies. On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:48 PM Tadeas Uhlir <tadeas.uhlir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey all, > > Today, I noticed that my alias for "ls" is not working as usual. I > alias "ll" to "LC_COLLATE=C ls -alF" to have a long listing with > hidden dirs at the top. However, I noticed that the sorting doesn't > work all of a sudden. After some digging around I found out that this > is due to "LC_ALL" being set to "en_US.utf8". This variable is being > set from a file at "/etc/profile.d/utf8.sh". > > Two notes about this: > 1. For the life of me I cannot figure out which package > upgrade/install created this file. Just going by a pacman log the file > creation time corresponds to when "pacman --noconfirm -S autoconf > libtool m4 automake" ran. But those packages don't seem to have much > to do with locale. And googling the path of this file doesn't seem to > yield much, clearly it's not a very common config file across linux > distros. > 2. Once I find the culprit, I would love to know what is the rationale > behind explicitly setting "LC_ALL". Even the archwiki mentions that > this should only be done during tests: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale#LC_ALL:_troubleshooting . And, > indeed, seems like a bad idea given that it overrides all LC_ vars. > > -- > Best Regards, > Tadeáš Uhlíř
