Re: [SLUG] localization

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Sep 15 2008 - 16:27:53 EDT


On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:

> Spake Eben King on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 12:56PM -0400:
>> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>>
>>> Spake Eben King on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 11:22AM -0400:
>>>> Is there a middle ground where things look correct and sort correctly?
>>>> Bonus if it can be made to look right in Samba too.
>>>
>>> If you *just* want to sort in ascii order, you can set LC_COLLATE=POSIX.
>>> e.g. export LC_COLLATE=POSIX.
>>
>> That does make it sort correctly (so does LC_ALL=C, BTW). It doesn't
>> make ø show up, even when I do this:
>>
>> eben@pc:~/mp3/b$ env -i LC_COLLATE=POSIX ls
>> BT Bizet Boston
>> BT_+_Paul_van_Dyk Bj?rk Bowers,_Brian
>> ...
>
> I'd be interested in how the filenames are encoded -- are they UTF-8,
> Latin-1, or what?

How would I tell?

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