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Re: multibyte locale patches for GNU utils available
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Markus Kuhn |
Subject: |
Re: multibyte locale patches for GNU utils available |
Date: |
Tue, 08 May 2001 19:24:17 +0100 |
Ulrich Drepper wrote on 2001-05-08 18:06 UTC:
> The arrogance of Unix users
> declaring their way of sorting to be the only true one is unbearable.
> Everybody except those used to the pre-i18n era Unix tools expects
> collation the way it is done now. Get used to it.
Real Unix geeks anyway use something like
export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C
and preserve the traditional beloved wicked sorting order.
Thanks Bruno for your work on these patches!!!
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>