GNU bug report logs - #6007
locale sort ordering confusion

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Vito Di Blas" <vito.diblas <at> libero.it>

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:45:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: 6007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:07:46 -0600

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Alan Curry writes:
> > From the name "en_US" one might guess that it represents the behavior
> > expected by English-speaking users in or from the US. But those users
> > have lived with computers for a generation or two. What they expect is
> > ASCIIbetical.
> 
> Nowadays most people don't know what ASCII is.

Even fewer know about EBCDIC.  Or why native host byte ordering might
differ between machines with different encodings.

Bob
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