Issues with incorrect locale settings

[Trey Sizemore]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 20:48 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 19:05 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 18:58 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > en_US is not a valid locale on FreeBSD.  Try en_US.ISO8859-1 or, on
> > > 5.X
> > > and higher, you can also use en_US.UTF-8.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm running 5.3-STABLE.  I thought I had that according to locale:
> > 
> > trey at salamander~> locale
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ALL=
> > 
> > but I'm still getting my folders sorted case-sensitively.
> 
> Doesn't look like FreeBSD's command line tools honors the
> case-insensitive order with LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 (like Solaris' does).
> I'm not sure if Evo would behave any different on FreeBSD.  But if it
> sorts case-insensitively on Linux and Solaris, then the bug would be
> with FreeBSD in general, and not with FreeBSD GNOME.
> 
> Joe
> 

Guess it's a FreeBSD thing as it sorts normally in Linux for me.  :-(

-- 
Cheers,
Trey
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