bug#9418: Fwd: bug#9418: case sensitivity buggy in sort

[Philipp Thomas]

* James Cloos (address@hidden) [20110904 16:41]:

> Complaints have been made about glibc's absurd and insane preference for
> case insensitive collation (at least in en and the euro locales)

It's not glibc's preference but the collation rules for a given locale! If
you want to complain, do so to the relevant ISO standardisation commitee.


> The other place this hits, and where many first saw it, is that it
> allows a command like 'rm [a-z]*' to unlink(2) files like Makefile.

Set your locale to C and you don't have that problem.

Philipp