Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (883 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 2012-05-28 02:11, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Anders Johansson wrote:
>
> > In any case, there is no way you are ever going to get a standard sorting
> > order for the whole world.
>
> There already is one.
>
> The Unicode specification already specifies collation order for all the
> languages it covers.
>
> I'm pointing out that for the Latin character set the A-Z sort before a-z.
> This isn't the case under SuSE.

The collation order for many locales with a Latin-like character set
is indeed Aa..Zz or aA..zZ. Phone books, word dictionaries - they all
work like that. Observe:

> LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8 ls
a  A  å  Å  ä  Ä  æ  Æ  b  B  ö  Ö  ø  Ø  ß  w  W  z  Z
> LC_COLLATE=nb_NO.UTF-8 ls
A  a  B  b  ß  W  w  Z  z  Æ  æ  Ä  ä  Ø  ø  Ö  ö  Å  å
> LC_COLLATE=sv_SE.UTF-8 ls
a  A  b  B  ß  w  W  z  Z  å  Å  ä  Ä  æ  Æ  ö  Ö  ø  Ø

Collating in A..Za..z fashion is reserved for the "POSIX" locale.
If you want that, set it.

        export LC_COLLATE=POSIX

or in /etc/sysconfig/language RC_LC_COLLATE.
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