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From: pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX (3.2.2) 'ls' is broken... what a shame
Keywords: ls SCO shame
Message-ID: <46@esacs.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 91 13:33:06 GMT
References: <41@esacs.UUCP> <1991Jan03.143742.23436@sco.COM>
Reply-To: pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi)
Organization: Esa Software s.r.l. Rimini (FO), ITALY
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In article <1991Jan03.143742.23436@sco.COM> larryp@sco.COM (Larry Philps) writes:
>internationalization (I18N for short), practically everything is
>variable.  There are languages out there in which words are sorted by the
>*first vowel in a word* rather than the first letter.  Some letters have
>to be treated as 2, some strings have to be treated as a single letter.
>It goes on and on.  The whole thing is incredibly complicated.

Agree.

>Anyway, what you have done is set your default environment to
>english_us.8859, rather than english_us.ascii.  Thus you have asked for
>ISO 8859 sorting rules rather than ascii sorting rules, and are getting
>case independent sorting among other things.  I was also confused when
>this happened the first time.

Wait! I have *not* chosen explicitly the 8859 collating sequence.
SCO did it!! I think the correct default would better be 'ascii'.

>You can do lots of things to solve this (as is typical in I18N)

Well, thank you, a guy on the net already explained it to me.

>If anyone else out there has done any I18N programming

What does exactly I18N stand for?

Ciao

Rick
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Riccardo Pizzi @ ESA Software, Rimini, ITALY
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