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From: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LC_COLLATE overridden by LC_ALL?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:41:13
Message-Id: 57ff2783-5547-406e-ef7e-3892ec8442d9@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] LC_COLLATE overridden by LC_ALL? by Bertram Scharpf
1 Am 27.07.2016 um 17:33 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > bsch@host ~ % mkdir showsort
5 > user@host ~ % cd showsort
6 > user@host ~/showsort % touch .A .Z .a .z A Z a z
7 > user@host ~/showsort % set | grep -a '^\(LANG\|LC_\)'
8 > LANG=de_DE.utf8
9 > LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8
10 > LC_COLLATE=C
11
12 >
13 > Why doesn't ls obey LC_COLLATE=C and how can I fix this?
14 >
15
16 Look at the description of LC_ALL:
17
18 LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
19 all the other internationalization variables.
20
21 Then do only set LANG and LC_COLLATE and not (!) LC_ALL.
22
23 You can run the tool "locale". It will show the effective values used
24 for each locale category.
25
26 For your settings:
27 $ LANG=de_DE.utf8 LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C locale
28 LANG=de_DE.utf8
29 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8"
30 LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.utf8"
31 LC_TIME="de_DE.utf8"
32 LC_COLLATE="de_DE.utf8"
33 LC_MONETARY="de_DE.utf8"
34 LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.utf8"
35 LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf8"
36 LC_NAME="de_DE.utf8"
37 LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.utf8"
38 LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.utf8"
39 LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.utf8"
40 LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.utf8"
41 LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8
42
43 When not setting LC_ALL:
44 $ LANG=de_DE.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C locale
45 LANG=de_DE.utf8
46 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8"
47 LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.utf8"
48 LC_TIME="de_DE.utf8"
49 LC_COLLATE=C
50 LC_MONETARY="de_DE.utf8"
51 LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.utf8"
52 LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf8"
53 LC_NAME="de_DE.utf8"
54 LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.utf8"
55 LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.utf8"
56 LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.utf8"
57 LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.utf8"
58 LC_ALL=
59
60 In scripts I normally use LC_ALL=C sort.
61
62 Regards
63 Matthias

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Re: [gentoo-user] LC_COLLATE overridden by LC_ALL? Bertram Scharpf <lists@×××××××××××××××.de>