> > Is this some utf-8 mutation?
>
> Yup.  If you want the old behavior, use this:
>
> export LC_COLLATE=C

Bingo. Thank you sir!

Eric d'Alibut

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:23:44 +0200

> I think there're unicode.

This is not directly related to Unicode (this also happens with ISO8859-1), but to a language.

> export LC_COLLATE=C

and this will also fix the hyphen-minus problem:

vin:~> printf '%s\n' 1-2 1-3 12 13 | LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 sort
12
1-2
13
1-3
vin:~> printf '%s\n' 1-2 1-3 12 13 | LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1 sort
12
1-2
13
1-3
vin:~> printf '%s\n' 1-2 1-3 12 13 | LC_COLLATE=C sort
1-2
1-3
12
13

Alternatively, one can use LC_COLLATE=POSIX.

Vincent Lefevre

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:31:00 -0400

> >> >I want that behavior. How can I do that, instead of the traditional order?
> >>
> >> I'm using testing, and it's doing this for me by default.
> >
> > I'm also using testing, and mine also does this by default....
>
> Mine (Debian testing) isn't:
>
> $ ls -1
> Pearl
> otter
> pearl
>
> Hence I want to know how to do it.

The environment variables LANG and LC_COLLATE control sort order and regex pattern matching expansion.

See files: /etc/environment and possibly /etc/profile (if edited…) LC_COLLATE is set via LANG (or LANGUAGE) unless overridden via the shell. Use the command "locale" to see the current values.

I have always used LANG="C" or "POSIX" which pays attention to the case:

Readme
SRC
bin
palm
sco

If you want the other rules use LANG=en_US (or just for the sort order, LC_COLLATE="en_US") to get:

bin
palm
Readme
sco
SRC

Larry Irwin