From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 2145 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2022 13:52:26 -0000 Received: from mother.openwall.net (195.42.179.200) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 28 Jan 2022 13:52:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 15705 invoked by uid 550); 28 Jan 2022 13:52:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 12018 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2022 13:44:03 -0000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:41:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.4.0 Content-Language: en-US To: musl@lists.openwall.com From: ellie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [musl] A journey of weird file sorting and desktop systems After spending a bit wondering why files like "elder1" and "Elder2" end up at completely different spots in the file list on my postmarketOS (=Alpine-based) system, I filed a ticket with the Nemo file manager. Turns out Nemo just uses locale-dependent sorting, so I spent an hour trying to set LC_COLLATE to fix this, until I stumbled across the remark on musl's website that LC_COLLATE sorting is simply not supported. So I seem to be stuck with this, which I did not expect. This to me seems kind of disastrous on a desktop system. I just fail to see any average default user (who doesn't know ASCII in their head) expecting "elder1" and "Elder2" to be miles apart in a sorted listing even as a default US person, let alone in some other language that may be expected to use a different sorting for whatever reason. (This affects umlauts too, I assume? So that'd be most European languages having file lists entirely messed up, too.) The sorting shouldn't be stuck as something that just makes sense to programmers and balks at any special vowels, and it appears at least as of now there is just no way to fix this. Should desktop file managers like Nemo not be using this sorting function? Or is musl not intended for desktop use, and postmarketOS should switch? Otherwise, it seems like this omission in musl seems like kind of a big deal. Or is it really just me who is constantly confused as to where any file is at in any file lists...? Or in other words, would be kind of cool if this could be changed