Re: [Evolution] Changing folder sort order

[Trey Sizemore <trey fastmail fm>]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 12:23 +0100, guenther wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 22:13 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 01:07 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > <snip>
>
> *sigh*  You snipped too much and didn't answer my questions. (see below)
>
>
> > > In a previous post you posted the output of 'locale' and it was set to C
> > > for most of your locale vars. Which actually sorts uppercase before
> > > lowercase.
> > >
> > > The relevant environment variable is LC_COLLATE. Open a terminal and run
> > > the following command to see that current setting:
> >
> > Here's what I have now:
> >
> > salamander# locale
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> [snip]
>
> > It's still sorting Evo folders case-sensitively. :-(
>
> Yes, sure. The value of LC_COLLATE is not a valid locale. LANG is. Note
> the difference, there are no double quotes for LANG value.
>
> 'locale' just as 'echo $LC_COLLATE' must not display any double quotes.
> If it does, the value is not a valid locale and it falls back to C.
>
>
> I specifically asked you how you set (changed) the locale values. Apart
> from the currently used invalid values, the locales settings of your
> shell are not necessarily the same as the ones used by X. If they differ
> on your machine, the output of 'locate' in a terminal doesn't say
> anything about your X locales.
>
> I told you how to set LC_COLLATE and run Evolution to actually see for
> yourself, that it *will* sort case insensitive. Again:
>
> $ LC_COLLATE=en_US evolution
>
> Please run that command in a terminal.
>
>
> Wherever you set those locales, fix it and it will work as you expect
> and correctly sort case insensitive.
>
> ...guenther
I get this error when I run as you mention:

bash-2.05b$ LC_COLLATE=en_US evolution

(evolution-2.0:1115): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(evolution:1115): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

(evolution:1115): camel-WARNING **: Invalid root:
'/home/trey/.evolution/mail/local/Drafts.ibex.index'

(evolution:1115): camel-WARNING **: version: TEXT.000 (TEXT.000)

(evolution:1115): camel-WARNING **: block size: 1024 (1024) OK

(evolution:1115): camel-WARNING **: free: 0 (0 add size < 1024) OK

(evolution:1115): camel-WARNING **: last: 6144 (6144 and size: 1024) BAD

(evolution:1115): camel-WARNING **: flags: unSYNC

Sorry for truncating the last post and leaving out some detail.

-- 
Cheers,
Trey
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