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Re: [cp-patches] [Patch] small fixes in gnu.*
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Archie Cobbs |
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Re: [cp-patches] [Patch] small fixes in gnu.* |
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Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:37:25 -0600 |
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Michael Koch wrote:
>>'n' comes before 'O' in English collation. This "fix" is a regression.
>
> No. Uppercase charcters are ordered before lowercase. That is what
> Eclipse and all other tools I looked do by default. I would have like it
> the other way too but then I have to change the defaults everywhere.
> We were inconsistent in this in the past, parts of the code uses this order,
> other parts use the other order and most code used no real order before.
In case anyone didn't realize this.. sort order is a function of
your locale setting.
You need to set your LC_ALL to "C" instead of "en" to get the
traditional sorting, if you're using a tool like sort(1) to do the sort.
-Archie
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