Re: g_utf8_collate case sensitivity

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Darin Adler wrote:

> on 9/5/01 11:52 AM, Havoc Pennington at hp redhat com wrote:
> 
> > Of course, no one should be using the C locale anyhow...
> 
> Let me translate that into "how this affects Darin" language:
> 
> "It doesn't matter how Nautilus sorts when the locale is not set up
> properly. If Nautilus users don't set their locale and they get
> case-sensitive sorting in directory views, that's OK. That's their problem.
> They configured their system wrong, so all bets are off."
> 
> 
>     -- Darin
> 
> PS: One problem with this is that I installed Red Hat in the simple ordinary
> way and for some reason my programs run in the "C" locale, not the "en_US"
> (or whatever it should be). So it seems that I configured my system wrong.
> Just out of curiosity, how should this be set up on a stock Red Hat system?
> 

Yeah, and who will convince all the other distros/OS-s that they should
install with "en_US"[1] as default instead of "C" ?


[1] and should it be the isolatin1 or utf-8 variant of en_US ?


	Sander

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