Re: Localization based problem with sort

[Dirk Stoecker]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Dirk Stoecker <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > What about the following solution? It is not exactly implementing the 
> > above options, but nevertheless fixes the problem directly:
> 
> But isn't this equivalent to setting LC_COLLATE="C" and LC_TIME="C" in
> the environment?  Why bother to have two different ways to do the same

Well, there are 2 reasons:
a) In some cases (e.g. commands called from editors) it is very complicated 
   or impossible to set environment variables.
b) Even advanced users do not know of LC_COLLATE. I myself use UNIX 
   operating systems for more than 10 years and it is the very first time 
   I get in contact with this special environment variable. It is very 
   unintuitive to set environment variables, whereas a program option is
   the normal way. Having both ways does no harm.

> thing?  (And how did LC_TIME get involved?  This is starting to sound
> messy....)

I thought LC_TIME has to be in the same category. I did not really check 
this. Remove that if wrong.

Ciao
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