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bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:07:46 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Alan Curry writes:
> > From the name "en_US" one might guess that it represents the behavior
> > expected by English-speaking users in or from the US. But those users
> > have lived with computers for a generation or two. What they expect is
> > ASCIIbetical.
> 
> Nowadays most people don't know what ASCII is.

Even fewer know about EBCDIC.  Or why native host byte ordering might
differ between machines with different encodings.

Bob






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