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bug#9418: Fwd: bug#9418: case sensitivity buggy in sort
From: |
Philipp Thomas |
Subject: |
bug#9418: Fwd: bug#9418: case sensitivity buggy in sort |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:01:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
* James Cloos (address@hidden) [20110904 16:41]:
> Complaints have been made about glibc's absurd and insane preference for
> case insensitive collation (at least in en and the euro locales)
It's not glibc's preference but the collation rules for a given locale! If
you want to complain, do so to the relevant ISO standardisation commitee.
> The other place this hits, and where many first saw it, is that it
> allows a command like 'rm [a-z]*' to unlink(2) files like Makefile.
Set your locale to C and you don't have that problem.
Philipp