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Re: ls -la sort order

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On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 12:31:01PM -0400, Lee wrote:
> 
> interesting... I get different results for 'ls [D-M]*' if LC_COLLATE=C
> or LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
> 
Think of it this way:

en_US.utf8 -> sort in alphabetical order
C -> sort in ASCII-betical order

In ASCII, all of the capital letters precede all of the lowercase
letters.  In US English, there is not a sorting distinction between a
capital and its matching lowercase, so they are considered equivalent.
Said another way, in ASCII 'A' != 'a', but en_US.utf8 'A' == 'a' (and
probably in every locale that uses Latin-1 as a base).

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez

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ls -la sort order Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-10-03 17:10 +0200
  Re: ls -la sort order Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-03 17:20 +0200
    Re: ls -la sort order Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-10-03 18:40 +0200
      Re: ls -la sort order Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-03 18:40 +0200
      Re: ls -la sort order Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-03 18:50 +0200
        Re: ls -la sort order Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-10-03 20:00 +0200
          Re: ls -la sort order Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-03 20:10 +0200
            Re: ls -la sort order Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-10-03 21:00 +0200
          Re: ls -la sort order Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-03 20:10 +0200

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