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From: "Alexis S. L. Carvalho" <alexis@cecm.usp.br>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fork: useless and painful?
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:24:13 -0300
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Thus spake Geoff Collyer:
> To really pick nits, why should setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 bugger the
> sort order and change to all-numeric uglies?  I'm an English-speaker
> in the US who prefers UTF-8, and I don't want any of this rubbish.

(Please don't shoot me for knowing this...)

There are quite a few locale categories - LC_CTYPE specifies the
encoding used, LC_COLLATE the sorting order and so on.  You can see
their current value using the command locale.

LANG specifies the default value for all categories;  you can override
one particular category with LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE etc.

LC_ALL overrides both LC_* and LANG.

In a nutshell: use LANG=C and LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 and you should be
happier.

Alexis