On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 11:01, John Haxby wrote: > Tom Ball wrote: > > > Does anyone know where the reasoning behind the strange collating > > > >behavior in the en_US.UTF-8 locale? No matter how I pre-sort the IP > >list, en_US.UTF-8 collating still wants to put the "128.*" IP address > >between two "12.*" ones. This is even true on Solaris, so the problem > >appears to be with the en_US.UTF-8 collation table, not the OS or its > >collation code. > > > > > It's "dictionary order" by default which is what is natural to most > people. It used to be that you had to use a special option to sort > (sort -df) to get this, now you get it by default. I set my > LC_COLLATE to "C" in mt .bash_profile to get the old fashioned behaviour > because I like to get my Makefile at the beginning of the ls listing and > not half way through! Hmmm, if they changed the default then they should have added an option for a "non-dictionary order". As it now stands, valid functionality was removed. Oh well, I guess I'm moving to the land of "C", too. Tom
