ru_RU locale bug?

[E.Rodichev]

Dear colleagues,

I found a strange behaviour of ru_RU locale (revision "1.0",
date "2000-06-29").

The problem occurs when comparing ASCII strings with punctuation
symbols, like ".", ",", etc.

For example, with C locale
strcoll(".b", "b") < 0

but with ru_RU locale
strcoll(".b", "b") > 0

As a result, sorting of files with only english (us-ascii) files leads to
different results. It affects many program, such as /bin/ls, etc.

Is it a bug, or intended behaviour? Typically, it seems more convenient
when setting ru_RU locale has influence only to processing of strings with
really cyrillic symbols, but not to the us-ascii strings.

Best wishes,
E.R.
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