Martjin, this little example show your answer: $ LANG=es_AR $ export LANG $ touch 'villa' $ touch 'villa f' $ touch 'villaa' $ touch 'villat' $ ls | sort villa villaa villa f villat May be this is an off topic, but the question now is how to change or find a locale that include spaces in sort order. Thanks!!!, Alejandro. 2005/7/2, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 11:28:12AM -0300, Alejandro D. Burne wrote: > > Hi, maybe there is a problem with sorting latin10? Seems to be like > > spaces don't exists just sorting. > > It's not the encoding, it's the locale. For example, the en_US sorts in > dictionary order (ignore spaces and case). > > Hope this helps, > -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings